Temper Quotes · Page 13

At the moment I was mad enough to chew up nails and spit out paper clips.

— Jim Butcher

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

— George Eliot

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

— Edmund Burke

Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

I'm actually kind of angriest about the fact that everybody keeps saying how angry I am.

— Aaron McGruder

A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.

— Mason Cooley

My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.

— Erich Maria Remarque

“It’s my dreadful temper! I try to cure it, I think I have, and then it breaks out worse than ever.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“There it is. That temper you try to hide. You know what fascinates me about you? You're a hungry person sitting in…

— Holly Black

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to…

— Honore de Balzac

“Morgase had a temper, but I thought I could ignore that, so it ended with her wanting to kill me." —Thom Merrillin…

— Robert Jordan

We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in…

— Hannah More

“Control your temper, or it will control you. Sometimes even remotely, like a toy car. Christmas is coming up, and for only…

— Jarod Kintz

“I have a problem with anger. I have a bad temper. I have trouble controlling it, and when I lose my temper…

— Sylvain Reynard

If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...

— Evelyn Waugh

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I…

— Julia Roberts

“Temper is a valuable possession, Never lose it with your obsession, The best way to win a fight, - Do not be…

— Munindra Misra

Perhaps I have not really a good temper at all, but if you have everything you want and everyone is kind to…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee…

— Sue Monk Kidd

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly…

— Walter Pater

The dishes of the present day are very light, and they have a particular delicacy and perfume. The secret has been discovered…

— Louis-Sebastien Mercier

“You stand before a god! Speak your eloquence for all posterity. Be Profound!" "Profound ... huh." Temper was silent for a long…

— Steven Erikson

I hated tobacco. I could have almost lent my support to any institution that had for its object the putting of tobacco…

— Thomas Huxley

Prayer is often an argument of laziness: "Lord, my temper gives me a vast deal of inconvenience, and it would be a…

— Henry Ward Beecher

We've all lost our temper at some time. Unfortunately, not all of us have done it in a public setting.

— Markwayne Mullin

Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.

— John Milton

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

— Washington Irving

Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.

— William Hazlitt

Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection.

— Horace

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

— Pietro Aretino

Nah, I don't have a bad temper. I just have a quick reaction to bullshit.

— Anonymous

It's not something I worry about: I can control my temper!

— Dele Alli

“A little leavening of dissatisfied temper will spread through a group and change outlooks.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

“My temper began to rise -- always a bad sign. I would probably end up doing something stupid.”

— Jasper Fforde

I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.

— Yancy Butler

“Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.”

— Amit Kalantri

Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.

— Viktor E. Frankl

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

— Janet Jackson

“He [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father.”

— Robertson Davies

I'm not depressed, I'm at the point where I'm so pissed off I would kill myself to hurt them.

— Slp