Temper Quotes

570 quotes by 421 authors

My temper manifests itself when I can't find something. I could swear that there is a plot against me to put kitchen utensils in the… — Tom Conti
The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do… — Ihab Hassan
"Try another Subtraction sum. Take a bone from a dog: what remains?" [asked the Red Queen] Alice considered. "The bone wouldn't remain, of course, if… — Lewis Carroll
My dad's more three-dimensional than Opie Taylor or Richie Cunningham. He even has a temper! He's a real person. But some people are disappointed by… — Bryce Dallas Howard
Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It's made it easier for me to make a… — Albert Gubay
When I on set as a director I crazy. My temper is not that good. — Andrew Lau
One of the things I find fascinating about God's creation is the way he seems to temper the negative environmental elements with corresponding positive ones.… — Marilyn Meberg
I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with. — Greg Bryk
But certain winds will make men's temper bad. — George Eliot
Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try. — Miguel de Cervantes
If you lose your temper, your sound sleep will go, and you will have to use a tranquilizer or sleeping pills? Then gradually, more white… — Dalai Lama
A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for… — Benjamin Franklin
Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be… — Joseph Addison
The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of all the lunar… — Thomas Hood
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue. — Edmund Spenser
A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed… — James Joyce
A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness — Robert Southey
Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others — Elbert Hubbard
Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of… — William Cowper
A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable… — Henry Fielding

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