Temper Quotes · Page 9

Women are temperamental. Thats 90% temper and 10% mental.

— Azgraybebly Joslan

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.

— Paul D. Boyer

You're in fine temper," Raffin said. "Your hair is blue," she snapped back.

— Kristin Cashore

If a person doesn't govern his temper, his temper will govern him.

— John C. Maxwell

In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.

— Livy

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

— Jane Austen

People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.

— Penelope Gilliatt

Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Henpecked, the great Wyatt Earp,” Cody said. “You evidently don’t know Jessie,” Wyatt said. “If she’s in one of her tempers she’d…

— Larry McMurtry

“If this life has any meaning, surely one is to dismount in small pieces the temper, so even if you cry no…

— Tiberiu Popovici

The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses…

— Carl Maria von Weber

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

— Oscar Wilde

I've never thought of myself as having that much of a temper. But it's true that I can't stand it when things…

— Joel Robuchon

Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A…

— Lisa Scottoline

There's something very intoxicating about playing someone so volatile and someone who can lose his temper at any second.

— Tom Felton

“It seemed that just when I was getting a handle on things, my fucking temper would rear its ugly head. I had…

— Jamie McGuire

To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. There is no other way…

— Fanny Burney

Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I…

— Russell Kirk

For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no…

— Helen Keller

Just because you're an adult doesn't mean you're grown up. Growing up means being patient, holding your temper, cutting out the self-pity,…

— Brandon Stanton

The nation blest above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day,…

— William James

I think that fear does come into it in some respect in the sense of when I lost my temper I didn't…

— Alex Ferguson

I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives…

— Grover Cleveland

After the temper subsides and one has a moment to calmly reflect, it isn't uncommon for declarations shouted in a fit of…

— Frank Beddor

There's nothing wrong with losing your temper for the right reasons.

— Jock Stein

I get angry very fast, and it's intense. I start breathing heavily, and don't like it.

— Vishnu Vishal

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My frankness has got me into a lot of trouble. I try to temper it down now. As you get older, you…

— Twinkle Khanna

I'm plain incapable of getting angry with Angela Merkel and likewise.

— Donald Tusk

God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.

— E. M. Forster

Do I ever lose my temper? Sure, I do it all the time - just ask my wife, she will tell you.

— Gianfranco Zola

I have a raging temper. I'll shout and scream, then it passes like a wicked storm.

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

The Queen rarely loses her temper, but when she does, she brooks no argument.

— Ingrid Seward

Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.

— Joseph Campbell

I have a big mouth, and I have a temper, so that's not good for people. That's not good for executives.

— Leah Remini

If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.

— Martin Lawrence

The fastest way to lose an argument is to lose your temper.

— Mardy Grothe

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

— William Shakespeare

I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends.

— Willa Gibbs

I got a temper. But part of my role is to steady the ship. That's just to try to control your emotions.

— Shaun Livingston