Ill Tempered Quotes
12 quotes by 11 authors
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We think we have to be a certain way because we have been taught to be a certain way. Actually the only truth is to…
— H. W. L. Poonja
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Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are…
— C.S. Lewis
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Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats…
— Aristotle
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Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am.
— C.S. Lewis
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In our human lives, we are often impatient, ill-tempered, inappropriate. We find it difficult to treat our intimates with the love we really hold for…
— Julia Cameron
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Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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I give nightly praise to my Maker that I never cast a ballot to bring that lazy, disreputable, ill-tempered beast into what was once my…
— Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
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Perhaps she drives men away. Perhaps, without even being able to help herself, she just puts men into her ill-tempered car and drives them off:…
— Lorrie Moore
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I opine-I think you're a woman of your world,' he said from the far end of the couch. 'I would have a hard time seeing…
— Kim Harrison
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What is this?†he went on now, spearing an unfortunate object on a fork and raising it to eye level. “This… this… thing?†“A parsnip? 
— Cassandra Clare
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If you think I'm one of those people who try to be funny at breakfast you're wrong. I'm invariably ill-tempered in the early morning.
— Daphne du Maurier
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Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a…
— Margaret Mead
Who Wrote These Ill Tempered Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 12 Ill Tempered Quotes as follows: