Good Temper Quotes

22 quotes by 21 authors

• Football is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play… — Robert Baden-Powell
• Good temper is an estate for life. — William Hazlitt
• Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a ray of brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude! — Washington Irving
• The dishes of the present day are very light, and they have a particular delicacy and perfume. The secret has been discovered of enabling us… — Louis-Sebastien Mercier
• What irritates me most of all about these morning people is their horribly good temper, as if they have been up for three hours and… — Timur
• It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves. — C.S. Lewis
• The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity. — Taylor Caldwell
• The exercise of patience involves a continual practice of the presence of God, for we may be called upon at any moment for an almost… — Frederick William Faber
• The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others. — William Empson
• There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us: it… — Sir Fulke Greville
• Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. — Charles Dickens
• Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features. — William Hazlitt
• Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted… — Anthony Trollope
• A great nation is not saved by wars, it is saved by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly;… — William James
• I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run… — Virginia Woolf
• Perhaps I have not really a good temper at all, but if you have everything you want and everyone is kind to you, how can… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
• If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper... — Evelyn Waugh
• Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men. — Oscar Wilde
• Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The sour quality is set opposite to the bitter and the sweet, and is a good temper to all, a refreshing and cooling when the… — Jakob Bohme

Who Wrote These Good Temper Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 22 Good Temper Quotes as follows:

• 2 Good Temper Quotes by William Hazlitt
• 1 Good Temper Quote by Sir Fulke Greville
• 1 Good Temper Quote by Charles Dickens
• 1 Good Temper Quote by Anthony Trollope
• 1 Good Temper Quote by William James
• 1 Good Temper Quote by Virginia Woolf
• 1 Good Temper Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• 1 Good Temper Quote by Evelyn Waugh
• 1 Good Temper Quote by Oscar Wilde
• 1 Good Temper Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Good Temper Quote by Jakob Bohme
• 1 Good Temper Quote by Janethnipay
• 1 Good Temper Quote by Aden Gulf
• 1 Good Temper Quote by Robert Baden-Powell
• 1 Good Temper Quote by Washington Irving
• 1 Good Temper Quote by Louis-Sebastien Mercier
• 1 Good Temper Quote by Timur
• 1 Good Temper Quote by C.S. Lewis
• 1 Good Temper Quote by Taylor Caldwell
• 1 Good Temper Quote by Frederick William Faber
• 1 Good Temper Quote by William Empson