"Irascibility" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... New American Cyclopdia as a fair standard of stupidity—although the prejudice, perhaps, may arise rather from the irascibility of the few using it as a reference, than from the calm judgment of the many employing it to fill-out a showy book-case—then the newest and most American Cyclopdist ...
— Punchinello, Vol.1, No. 12 , June 18,1870 • Various
... ordinary man; his affections were warm and generous, his nature calm and gentle; and, though early power, and the painful experience of a mutinous people and ungrateful court, had imparted to that nature an irascibility of temper and a quickness of suspicion foreign to its earlier soil, he was easily led back to generosity and justice; and, if warm in resentment, was magnanimous in forgiveness. Deeply accomplished in all the learning of his race and time, ...
— Leila or, The Siege of Granada, Book II. • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... not accept anything," she replied. "I will get my own living." And the earl's irascibility again arose at the speech. He spoke in ...
— East Lynne • Mrs. Henry Wood
... complain of him; for with all his little foibles of vanity, irascibility, and egotism, and a certain close-fistedness, he was a good fellow ...
— Peter Ibbetson • George du Marier et al
... is some need of him; let him fight for his own." This faith that in a life at first hand there is something sacred is perhaps the most characteristic note in Emerson's writings. The hottest side of him is this non-conformist persuasion, and if his temper could ever verge on common irascibility, it would be by reason of the passionate character of his feelings on this point. The world is still new and untried. In seeing freshly, and not in hearing of what others saw, shall a man find what truth is. "Each one of us can bask in the great morning ...
— Memories and Studies • William James
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