Patient Quote by Toba Beta

“Enough of this, dearest one. I ought not to have spoken of it, but I lost my temper. Still, it is pleasant to speak…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It’s my dreadful temper! I try to cure it, I think I have, and then it breaks out worse than ever.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“It seemed that just when I was getting a handle on things, my fucking temper would rear its ugly head. I had to get…

— Jamie McGuire

“I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.”

— Susanna Clarke

“Keep your temper. Nobody else wants it.”

— Robin Jones Gunn

“Manage your temper" he reminds me, his small voice darkening. "Manners, manners, then burn their bloodydamn house to the ground.”

— Pierce Brown

“ composure , n . You told me anyway, even though I didn’t want to know. A stupid drunken fling while you were visiting…

— David Levithan

“Yeah. I have a temper. But it’s one I’ve learned to control. Really? Really. How do you figure? You’re still standing, aren’t you?”

— Lynette Eason

“I was very sorry that i had been in a temper --- but I was sorry because it was foolish and undignified, not because…

— L.M. Montgomery

“My temper began to rise -- always a bad sign. I would probably end up doing something stupid.”

— Jasper Fforde

“. . . mixing defensiveness with anger - a wonderful mix, by the way.”

— Liza Palmer

“I read somewhere that the man who has your anger has control of you, and I understood that already, having only been in the…

— Sarah Michelle Lynch