Sanguine Quotes

• That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

  Charles Dickens

  Cities, Mind, Vision

  Charles Dickens, Gillen D'Arcy Wood (2003). “A Tale of Two Cities”, p.385, Barnes & Noble

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• His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Stars, Firefly, Spirit

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4393, Delphi Classics

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• There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Ignorance, Vanity, Pay

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.197

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• I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.

  Henry Bessemer

  Years, Feet, Energy

  Sir Henry Bessemer (1905). “Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An autobiography”

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• As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.

  Torquato Tasso

  Hair, Gleam, Comets

  Torquato Tasso (1802). “Jerusalem Delivered: An Heroic Poem”, p.224

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• This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Coward, Bed

  1596-7 Henry IV Part One, act 2, sc.5, l.245-52.

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• but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

  Jane Austen

  Pay, Doe, Expecting

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.980, Ageless Reads

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• ..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

  Jane Austen

  Expectations

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.6, Wordsworth Editions

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• It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Heart, Personality

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• Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, Speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hope, Disappointment, Heart

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• Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.

  Anthony Trollope

  Ambition, Men, Desire

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.4904, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I'm even sanguine about that.

  Bette Midler

  Way, Planets

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• Sanguine felt the ridiculous urge to reach out and poke him, just to see if he’d react, but he’d seen that kind of anger before. It was the quiet kind. The dangerous kind.

  Derek Landy

  Ridiculous, Quiet, Kind

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• Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

  Honore de Balzac

  Moving, Men, Wish

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• People who always feel jolly, no matter where they are or what happens to them—who have the organ of hope preposterously developed—who are endowed with an uncongealable sanguine temperament—who never feel concerned about the price of corn—and who cannot, by any possibility, discover any but the bright side of a picture—are very apt to go to extremes, and exaggerate with 40-horse microscopic power.

  Mark Twain

  Horse, People, Matter

  Mark Twain (2017). “Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn – The Great American Adventure (Illustrated): Complete 4 Novels: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer Abroad & Tom Sawyer, Detective (Including Author’s Biography)”, p.871, e-artnow

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• Sanguine chuckled. "I like you, boy. You got optimism in these bones. I like you so much that I ain't gonna tell you what I did to poor old Jethro, the first Jethro, may he rest in peace, may they someday find his head.

  Derek Landy

  Rest In Peace, I Like You, Boys

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• O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen!
  Bare long after the rest are green;
  But as the time steals onwards, while none perceives
  Slowly she clothes herself with leaves--
  Hides her fruit under them, hard to find.
  . . . .
  But by and by, when the flowers grow few
  And the fruits are dwindling and small to view--
  Out she comes in her matron grace
  With the purple myriads of her race;
  Full of plenty from root to crown,
  Showering plenty her feet adown.
  While far over head hang gorgeously
  Large luscious berries of sanguine dye,
  For the best grows highest, always highest,
  Upon the mulberry-tree.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Queens, Flower, Feet

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• There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you.

  Simon Callow

  Facts, Born, Attributes

  "A life in the arts: Simon Callow". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2011.

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• My beer has been universally well-liked beyond my most sanguine expectations. Cannot serve half my customers, and they are increasing every day.

  John Molson

  Beer, Expectations, Half

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• The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more - this essential energy of the soul is not an ecstatic trance, high emotion or a sanguine stance toward life: It is a fierce longing for God, an unyielding resolve to live in and out of our belovedness. - pg. 152

  Brennan Manning

  Love, Passion, Heart

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.134, NavPress

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• I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.

  Edmund Burke

  Effort, Election, Proportion

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.2600, Delphi Classics

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• I feel sanguine enough to say that there has never been a better set of conditions for open democratic politics because there is no need for unified front politics.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Needs, Enough, Democratic

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• A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and a reasonable standard of physical sustenance and comfort, the whole being bedeviled by the belief that there is always something better to be had if only one presses on.

  P. D. James

  Expectations, Comfort, Essentials

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• Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to the defiant, dealing in love, war, beauty, children, romance, rejection, Pethedine, poetry, panties, God, Auden, Johnny Cash, cold potatoes, too-much-money, not enough money, writer’s block, flowers, animals and more flowers. But maybe I’m projecting here.

  Nick Cave

  Beautiful, Children, Block

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• We do not dwell in the Palace of Truth. But, as was mentioned to me not long since, "There is a time coming when all things shall be found out." I am not so sanguine myself, believing that the well in which Truth is said to reside is really a bottomless pit.

  Oliver Heaviside

  Believe, Dwelling, Long

  Oliver Heaviside (1893). “Electromagnetic Theory”

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