diogenes-tempered

Updated: June 30, 2025

He had now learnt to use it, in a way that did not invariably give satisfaction. Landseer always struck me as sensitive and proud, a Diogenes-tempered individual who had been spoilt by the toadyism of great people. He was agreeable if made much of, or almost equally so if others were made little of. But of all those named, surely John Lawrence was the greatest.

Henry J. (Henry John) Coke - Tracks of a Rolling Stone