Bad Temper Quotes

#1. Is it not true that your gloominess and bad temper are due to your lack of determination in breaking the subtle snares laid by your own disordered desires? The daily examination of conscience is an indispensible help if we are to follow our Lord with sincerity of heart and integrity of life.

Josemaria Escriva

#2. If you are a true Christian, you will not give way at home to bad temper, impatience, fault-finding, sarcasm, unkindness, suspicion, selfishness, or laziness.

Billy Graham

#3. I truly thought I might hurt that man," he said, "very badly."
"I didn't know you were capable of such bad temper."
"Apparently I am.

Kristin Cashore

#4. In junior high in Germany I fought kids all the time. I had such a bad temper, I almost got thrown out of school. A few lickings from my dad got me out of that scene. He wore me out with a paddle.

Shaquille O'Neal

#5. It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

C.S. Lewis

#6. I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

Mike Krzyzewski

#7. I have a problem with anger. I have a bad temper. I have trouble controlling it, and when I lose my temper I can be very destructive.

Sylvain Reynard

#8. But every line we write breathes victory and challenge, the bad temper of a conqueror, underground explosions, howls. We are a volcano. We vomit forth black smoke.
The heavens open and out comes an imposing
Pile of garbage; it looks a lot like Leo Tolstoy

Velimir Khlebnikov

#9. Alas, for the effects of bad tea and bad temper!

Emily Bronte

#10. Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

Charles Buxton

#11. I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.

Paul D. Boyer

#12. Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder.

Cassandra Clare

#13. For very long periods I am really patient, and then out breaks my bad temper. It is not so difficult to bear great trials, but these little buzzing mosquitos are so trying.

Robert Alexander

#14. There are so many highly esteemed ones who became miserable and humiliated just because of their bad temper and morals; and humble people who have attained eminence and the highest honors because of good temper and morals.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#15. The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

Samuel Butler

#16. Perhaps my bad temper or my jealousy are gradually getting worse - so gradually that the increase in seventy years will not be very noticeable. But it might be absolute hell in a million years!

C.S. Lewis

#17. How odd that people could be so ugly, not particularly because of appearence, but because of the atmosphere of judgemental bad temper and discontent they carried around with them

Beaton, M.C.

#18. Clary," Jace said again. "You know: short, redheaded, bad temper.

Cassandra Clare

#19. To use strong language, she thought, was a sign of bad temper and lack of concern for others. Such people were not clever or bold simply because they used such language; each time they opened their mouths they proclaimed I am a person who is poor in words.

Alexander McCall Smith

#20. All my life, people have taken my shyness for sullenness, snobbery, bad temper of one sort or another.

Donna Tartt

#21. I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

Janet Jackson

#22. I am nothing but a miserable, crushed worm, whom no one wants, whom no one loves, a useless creature with morning sickness, and abig belly, two rotten teeth, and a bad temper, a battered sense of dignity, and a love which nobody wants and which nearly drives me insane.

Sophia Tolstaya

#23. I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper.

Henry Rollins

#24. 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 speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured.

Rumi

#25. It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Alfred Adler

#27. I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control.

Theodore Roosevelt

#28. I knew that even though he was way into mood-altering substances and he had this really bad temper that there was something really beautiful inside him. Just because no one else could see it didn't mean it wasn't there.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#29. Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others

Elbert Hubbard

#30. Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

Agatha Christie

#31. Because I love you," Iain said simply. "I always have. I love your bad temper. I love your jealous streak. I love your strength and pigheadedness. And I know you love me. And sometimes love makes people go a little crazy. The insanity won't last forever ... I hope.

Kirsten Miller

#32. His Grace woke up in the morning red-eyed as a ferret and in roughly the same temper as a rabid badger. Had I a tranquilizing dart, I would have shot him with it without an instant's hesitation.

Diana Gabaldon

#33. Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character.

Theodore Roosevelt

#34. Not to be able to bear with all bad-tempered people with whom the world is crowded, shows that a man has not a good temper himself.

Jean De La Bruyere

#35. My temper began to rise
always a bad sign. I would probably end up doing something stupid.

Jasper Fforde

#36. This was clearly one of those moments. Mild-mannered, Dexter-Devoted Rita, who never lost her temper and never, never said bad words, was doing both at the same time and directing it all at her innocent-just-this-once husband. But

Jeff Lindsay

#37. Trying not to believe things when in your heart you are almost sure they are true, is as bad for the temper as anything I know.

E. Nesbit

#38. Then I got this image of my big toe, painted bright red, suddenly developing a face and a hot Southern temper to match, screaming, What the hell is wrong with mah bad self?

Jennifer Rardin

#39. It is neither trials nor relationships nor successes nor failures that define a man, but the choices he makes while handling them.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#40. You draw the best things from your parents and family. You're going to pick up some of the bad things as well - there's a temper that runs through my dad's side of the family that I'm not especially keen on picking up a giant block of.

Mark Ronson

#41. 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.

Isaac Barrow

#42. If I have a really bad cook or a bad manager or bad sous-chef, I previously would have fired them or lost my temper. But now I realize that if I'm so right, then I should be able to communicate it so clearly that they get it.

David Chang

#43. You have one Mord-Sith and one Mother Confessor, here, both in very bad moods. I would suggest you not give us an excuse to lose our temper, or we may never find it again in your lifetime.
-Kahlan Amnell

Terry Goodkind

#44. But certain winds will make men's temper bad.

George Eliot