LONG NAILS

• In disposition, long-nailed individuals are less critical and more impressionable than those with short nails. They are also calmer in temper and gentler.

• Long nails show more resignation and calmness in every way. As a rule their owners take things easily. Such nails indicate great ideality; they also show an artistic nature, and their owners, as a rule, are fond of poetry, painting, and all the fine arts.
  
  
• Long-nailed persons, however, are rather inclined to be visionary, and shrink from looking in the face, particularly if those facts are distasteful

SHORT NAILS

• Short-nailed individuals, on the contrary, are extremely critical, even of things relating to self; they analyse everything with which they come into contact; they incline to logic, reason, and facts, in opposition to the visionary qualities of the long-nailed.
  
  
• Short-nailed individuals make the best critics; they are quicker, sharper, and keener in their judgement; they are as, well fond of debate, and in an argument they will hold out till the very last; they have a keener sense of humour and of the ridiculous than the long-nailed; they are quick and sharp in temper, and are more or less sceptical of things they do not understand.

When the nails are broader than they are long, they indicate a pugnacious disposition, also a tendency to worry and meddle and to interfere with other people ‘s business.

• Nails short by the habit of biting indicate the nervous, worrying temperament.