Bad Tempered Quotes

#1. Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.

Gilbert Highet

#2. I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.

Evelyn Waugh

#3. She thought she was a feminist. She was only bad tempered.

Hari Kunzru

#4. Her heavy peasant face was fringed by a bang of red hair like a woolen table-spread, a color at once strange and attractive, an obstinate color, a color that seemed to make Lena feel something alien and bad-tempered had settled over her forehead ...

Djuna Barnes

#5. 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

#6. You hold your life cheaply, mistress," the voice said dryly. "He's a bad-tempered devil, and his affections are often false." "Nonsense," I said. "He's a lovely brute.

Susanna Kearsley

#7. I can be unkind to someone in the street or in the subway - I'm a bad-tempered person - but I'm unable to be unkind to a character. They exist because of me, and I have responsibility for them.

Claire Denis

#8. The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.

Margaret Deland

#9. Here is what to do if you want to get a lift from a Vogon: forget it. They are one of the most unpleasant races in the Galaxy - not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous.

Douglas Adams

#10. Behind her warm facade radiating empathy and understanding, there was an aggressive, bad- tempered bitch, putting up endless walls of goodness to conceal her rage and resentment toward the entire world. She was like an alligator in a velvet jumpsuit.

Zygmunt Miloszewski

#11. And who can be ill natured and bad tempered when they encounter neither opposition nor indifference?

Emily Bronte

#12. Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.

Mick Jagger

#13. was just bad-tempered. I stayed

Grace Greene

#14. A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.

Joyce Cary

#15. 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

#16. She was god-awfully hideous. I swear she looked like a bad-tempered mutant tomato, and she was making a sound like a cat being fed into a printer

Sarah Rees Brennan

#17. Tell Lord Brudenell...that he has already given me satisfaction: the satisfaction of having removed the most damned bad tempered and extravagant bitch in the kingdom.

Cecil Woodham-Smith

#18. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph on a bad-tempered camel.

Ian Tregillis

#19. I'm an extremely wealthy man. I own the sky. I have invested all my capital in the sun. I'm not bad-tempered, as you seem to imagine, nor do I bear grudges. But like all wealthy men, I'm a little frightened of losing my fortune.

Halldor Laxness

#20. Hark ye,'said the father, 'a bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse. You've not learned your trade yet, Samson.

Anna Sewell

#21. The goal is to build the muscle memory for your child to instinctively ask themselves key questions before making a purchase.

Holly D. Reid

#22. In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.

Paul Harris

#23. Joy is temporary, Happiness is permanent; for it comes out from positive mind and is an art of tension free heart.

Vikrmn

#24. Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities.

Thomas Perry

#25. Most human problems can be solved by an appropriate charge of high explosive.

Joe Gayton

#26. A heroic nature is very Greek.

Patrick Wilson

#27. So you made some bad choices. Some of God's best players were His imperfect, broken prodigals. In fact, iffy players are God's best picks. He specializes in short-tempered, reckless, flawed people to accomplish his plans.

Susan May Warren

#28. It's bad enough to love someone who don't love you, but to have them told of it is perfectly awful. It makes me wild just to think of it. Ah, Fan, I'm getting so ill tempered and envious and wicked, I don't know what will happen to me. - Polly

Louisa May Alcott

#29. ... to me, a restaurant with no menu, headed by a chef I trusted, would be ideal. In such a utopia, guests could specify deathly allergies, hunger level, and time constraints, but then they would unfurl their napkin and surrender".

Phoebe Damrosch

#30. I remember thinking that moms were not allowed to be sad, that surely women grew out of sadness by the time they had children.

Megan Mayhew Bergman

#31. Whatever you do, love everybody around you.

Debasish Mridha

#32. You call that a kiss?

Suzanne Collins

#33. It's not about the actors, though, Peter. That's the thing. It's about the writing.

Emily Giffin

#34. I know some people with such bad tempers that, even if they accidentally walked into a tree branch, they will chop the whole tree down.

Anthony Liccione

#35. Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#36. I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did.

Jimmy Carl Black

#37. Personally speaking, growing up as a gay man before it was as socially acceptable as it is now, I knew what it was to feel different, to feel alienated and to feel not like everyone else. But the very same thing that made me monstrous to some people also empowered me and made me who I was.

John Logan

#38. When you make a mistake, don't make a second one
keeping it to yourself. Own up. The time to sort out rotten eggs is at the nest. The deeper you hide them in the case the longer they stay in circulation, and the worse impression they make when they finally come to the breakfast table.

George Horace Lorimer