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I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war. -- John Major
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
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
His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself -- Jane Austen
This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh! -- William Shakespeare
As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air. -- Torquato Tasso
That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds. -- Charles Dickens
Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams. -- William E. Gladstone
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
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
Deb Zane, our casting director on the Hunger Games was very sanguine, from the beginning, about just blocking out what everybody else says that they want. -- Nina Jacobson
The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience. -- Agnes Repplier
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
Heroism, or military glory, is much admired by the generality of mankind. They consider it as the most sublime kind of merit. Menof cool reflection are not so sanguine in their praises of it. -- David Hume
When you are corn and roses and at rest I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost To haunt the scene where I was happiest To bend above the thing I loved the most -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense. [Lat., Sed tamen ut fuso taurorum sanguine centum, Sic capitur minimo thuris honore deux.] -- Ovid
Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet. -- William James
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
You know, I'm normally so sanguine. But... being accused of rushing these two books out to cash in on the Newbery Medal, without access to time travel equipment or anything, just makes me want to bang my forehead gently against a tree for half an hour. Is it too much to ask people to think? -- Neil Gaiman
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He looked at Ghastly. "Thoughts?""I want to kill Sanguine," was the first thing Ghastly said. "And I want to do it slowly, in front of a lot of people. Using a hammer."Skulduggery nodded. "Very healthy. -- Derek Landy
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
There's a clock on the wall. Press your hand against the face and turn it very slightly to the. Left. There'll be a click to tell you it's done.""Sounds easy enough.""Yes it does," said Sanguine. "Kiss for good luck?""Maybe later," said Gracious."How about a handshake?" Asked Donegan. -- Derek Landy
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
They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular. -- John Morley
I think we are always right to worry about damaging consequences of new technologies even as we are empowered by them. History suggests we should not panic nor be too sanguine about cool new gizmos. There's a delicate balance. -- James Gleick
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
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
He was trying to gather up the scarlet threads of life and weave them into a pattern; to find his way through the sanguine labyrinth of passion through which he was wandering. -- Oscar Wilde
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

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