Dominant Trait

Famous quotes containing the words dominant trait, dominant and/or trait:

“Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother’s nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy of the Lord Jesus had never entered her heart. Her piety was an act of war against Protestant ascendancy. ...The teachings of the Church did not interest her, except as they were a rebuke to others ...”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

“A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)

“Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)