Temper Quotes · Page 11

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

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

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

— Horace

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

— William Hazlitt

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

— Francis Quarles

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

— Sean O'Casey

I let my temper get the best of me and I go off for no reason, This is the beginning of kickin'…

— Z-Ro

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

— Hannah More

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

— Sylvain Reynard

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

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't…

— Will Oldham

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

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 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

'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions…

— David Hume

Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without…

— Orison Swett Marden

If we are told a man is religious we still ask what are his morals? But if we hear at first that…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

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

Because I love you," Iain said simply. "I always have. I love your bad temper. I love your jealous streak. I love…

— Kirsten Miller

“The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous.”

— Henry Drummond

When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.

— Mario Balotelli

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“And the boy whose temper seemed tethered to the air itself…they didn’t know what to make of him.”

— Victoria Schwab

Inject laughter into tense situations to save the day; laughter calms tempers and soothes jangled nerves.

— Wilferd Peterson

“I warn you, dear child. If I lose my temper, you lose your head. Understand?”

— Lewis Carroll

“A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper.”

— Jane Austen

I used to be afraid of my temper, but it turns out I don't really have one.

— Zoe Bell

“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

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

— Janet Jackson

Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others

— Elbert Hubbard

I am very short-tempered but my anger doesn't last long.

— Mimi Chakraborty

I have a very high frequency of anger, and a very high frequency of sadness.

— Jonathan Majors

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

— Horace

I never liked anyone who didn't have a temper. If you don't have a temper, you don't have any passion.

— Michael Bloomberg