Temper Quotes

570 Temper quotes by 421 unique authors

Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion. — Naomi Campbell
Why, what a temper you are in! — Lewis Carroll
The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper. — C.S. Lewis
I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and temper can stand… — Harriet Martineau
Linda seemed to recognize loneliness. Possibly she could see it sitting opposite her, sipping lager and trying not to lose its temper. It was an… — Nick Hornby
Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune. — Horace
I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes,… — Charles Dickens
The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. — William Shakespeare
The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers. — Joseph Addison
I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country — Joseph Addison
Oh woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you; Angels are painted fair to look like you; There's… — Thomas Otway
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. — Lewis Carroll
The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity. — Taylor Caldwell
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Abstinence is easier than temperance. — Seneca the Younger
I'm half Scotch-Irish on both sides, and when I lose my temper-brother, I go. — S. J. Perelman
Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with. — Euripides
Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain… — John Milton
Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives the best promise… — Grover Cleveland
Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I recognize a lot of the things I'm going through. Like, I lose my temper a lot and I become unhinged and kind of hysterical. — Joan Didion
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon… — Edward Dahlberg

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