“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 Copy Share Image
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease. — John Milton Copy Share Image
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I'm actually kind of angriest about the fact that everybody keeps saying how angry I am. — Aaron McGruder Copy Share Image
Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
At the moment I was mad enough to chew up nails and spit out paper clips. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The Temper Trap's 'Sweet Disposition' is an invigorating song. It's my mental cue to let go of stress, disconnect from my career… — Mylene Dinh-Robic Copy Share Image
“irritability in men is regarded as a sign of status. But when women lose their temper they’re seen as less competent.” — Valerie Young Copy Share Image
A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
When I'm really, really angry, if I'm privileged enough to be next to someone who can hold my anger, I'll definitely take… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz Copy Share Image
Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
She was more than willing to let him walk off his temper. And the man had one, even if he wasn't willing… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“You stand before a god! Speak your eloquence for all posterity. Be Profound!" "Profound ... huh." Temper was silent for a long… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Deep down, I know that I am a child of God who has inherited divine capacities; some of them I strive to… — Mary Manin Morrissey Copy Share Image
If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
Having been away from you offical duties," Arch said as the Miller's hand lowered to his side, "you might not have hearc,… — Frank Beddor Copy Share Image