Accommodations Quote by William Empson

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

Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or…

— Aristotle

“The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous.”

— Henry Drummond

Good temper is an estate for life.

— William Hazlitt

My temper is of a recluse and contemplative cast; had it been otherwise, I should, perhaps, on some former occasions, have entered into the…

— William Godwin

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

— Alfred Adler

When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he…

— Rumi

There is a variety in tempers of good men.

— Francis Atterbury

Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.

— Hugh Blair

A temperate anger has virtue in it.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.

— Penelope Gilliatt

You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it…

— Jasper Fforde