Temperance Quotes

(on Katharine Hepburn) She talks at you as though you were a microphone; she lectured the hell out of me on temperance and the evils of drink. She doesn`t give a damn how she looks. I don`t think she tries to be a character. I think she is one.

Joy, temperance, and repose, Slam the door on the doctor`s nose.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Abstinence is the surety of temperance