Temper Quotes

British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match; personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified.

I can lose my temper from time to time, but I try not to lose it on the pitch because it can't help.

A person's fate is their own temper.

Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language.

My dad's more three-dimensional than Opie Taylor or Richie Cunningham. He even has a temper! He's a real person. But some people are disappointed by that.

The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.

…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.

The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

WHEN YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT, YOU CAN AFFORD TO KEEP YOUR TEMPER; AND WHEN YOU ARE IN THE WRONG, YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE IT.

If you lose your temper, your sound sleep will go, and you will have to use a tranquilizer or sleeping pills? Then gradually, more white hair, wrinkles.

Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God .

I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men do not live to breathe: they breathe to live.

My father taught me that losing your temper is a self-indulgent act.

The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak.

Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

If a person doesn't govern his temper, his temper will govern him.

I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.

For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.

Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.

Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

You're in fine temper," Raffin said. "Your hair is blue," she snapped back.

Sit, Your High Majestic Lord Princes," she said. She yanked a chair from the table and sat herself down. "You're in fine temper," Raffin said. "Your hair is blue," Katsa snapped back.

At one point, she'd wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she'd remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn't: cleanup.

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," said the Caterpillar.

Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was a sign that a mom said no when it counted.

A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.

A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

I want to feel better. My wife says she likes me not drinking, not so many highs, so many lows, I don't lose temper, I'm more patient.

An awful lot has been written about my temper.

Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it.

I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.

My fist so rocky and and wrist so icy, Might be, thrown off my rocker just slightly, Feisty, claimin' hot temper don't ignite me, I'm only gonna ask ya find the exit once politely

I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.

I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.