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Temper Quotes by Lewis Carroll
- They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs...
- I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?
- Why, what a temper you are in!
- First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce) worse than useless.
- "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…
- Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say." This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again. "Keep your temper,"…
- Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.
More Temper Quotes
- 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
- Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for… — Honore de Balzac
- Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade. — James M. Barrie
- Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. — Joseph Addison
- We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority. — Alfred Adler
- It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. — Edmund Burke
- It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown… — Samuel Butler
- We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man… — Samuel Butler
- The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in… — Samuel Butler
- There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no… — Benjamin Carson
- If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain. — Paul Cezanne
- Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping… — Gilbert K. Chesterton