Bitter Quote by Emily Bronte

“Playfulness: that infantile quality we sneer at whilst busying ourselves with intellect and seriousness. And misery.”

— Martin Cosgrove

“As there is no evil however small but may cause him to groan under it, who has his heart undisciplined, so there is no…

— Kaiten Nukariya

A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

“He was a precocious and delicate little boy, quivering with the malaise of being unloved. When we played, his child's heart would come into…

— Harold Brodkey

“It had formerly been my endeavor to study all sides of his character: to take the bad with the good; and from the just…

— Charlotte Brontë

“He saw that men who worked hard, and earned their scanty bread with lives of labour, were cheerful and happy; and that to the…

— Charles Dickens

“My intellect, my wit—I’d forgotten I’d even possessed them, and they were dull and neglected, to be sure. But in the company of others…

— Melanie Benjamin

A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Whatever was wrong, in either her or her brother, he would encourage by laughing at, if not by actually praising: people little know the…

— Anne Brontë

The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others.

— William Empson

“The note of almost unbearable irritation sounding through the deliberately calm tone in which he has just spoken penetrates her child's heart like a…

— Anna Kavan

“His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless;…

— W. Somerset Maugham