“I guess you've got a spice of temper," commented Mr. Harrison, surveying the flushed cheeks and indignant eyes opposite him. "It goes… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Oh woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you; Angels are painted fair to look… — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Probably Providence has implanted peevishness and ill-temper in sick and old persons, in compassion to the friends or relations who are to… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Remember, if you sit at your desk for 15 or 20 years, every day, not counting weekends, it changes you. It just… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
My temper manifests itself when I can't find something. I could swear that there is a plot against me to put kitchen… — Tom Conti Copy Share Image
I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good… — Jeanette MacDonald Copy Share Image
“As to answering though, said Sara, trying to console herself, I don't answer very often. I never answer when I can help… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
If Nightcloud were a gentle, loving cat like Leafpool, or feisty and warmhearted like Squirrelflight, it would be easier to feel sorry… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Is it not true that your gloominess and bad temper are due to your lack of determination in breaking the subtle snares… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
On an odd occasion, you'll still find me shouting at referees when I've become increasingly frustrated, but I've tried to control my… — Nikita Parris Copy Share Image
I wrote half the record in 2002, which basically concluded with us releasing "Baby's Got A Temper," the last single. I think… — Liam Howlett Copy Share Image
It must have been the lack of nutrients that gave my father his temper. He is not a sweet man despite a… — Nigel Slater Copy Share Image
Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune. — Horace Copy Share Image
Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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