Ill Tempered Quotes

#1. They could not every day sit so grim and taciturn; and it was impossible, however ill-tempered they might be, that the universal scowl they wore was their every-day countenance.

Emily Bronte

#2. If you think I'm one of those people who try to be funny at breakfast you're wrong. I'm invariably ill-tempered in the early morning.

Daphne Du Maurier

#3. Defend myself? I cannot defend the verbal repressions of a boy. A curmudgeonly, cantankerous, ill-tempered, counterfeit boy.

Coco J. Ginger

#4. Lively once, expansive and affectionate, in growing older she had become (after the fashion of wine that, exposed to air, turns to vinegar) ill-tempered, grumbling, irritable. She

Gustave Flaubert

#5. Perhaps she drives men away. Perhaps, without even being able to help herself, she just puts men into her ill-tempered car and drives them off: to quarries, dumps, small anonymous bodies of water.

Lorrie Moore

#6. How pleasant to know Mr Lear! / Who has written such volumes of stuff! / Some think him ill-tempered and queer / But a few think him pleasant enough.

Edward Lear

#7. In our human lives, we are often impatient, ill-tempered, inappropriate. We find it difficult to treat our intimates with the love we really hold for them. Despite this, they bear with us because of the larger, higher level of family that they honor even in our outbursts. This is their commitment.

Julia Cameron

#8. People are so ready to think themselves changed when it is only their mood that is changed. Those who are good-tempered because it is a fine day will be ill-tempered when it rains: their selves are just the same both days; only in one case the fine weather has got into them, in the other the rainy.

George MacDonald

#9. 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

#10. I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.

Ingmar Bergman

#11. She has always seemed to me the epitome of womankind: coldly suspicious, politely ill-tempered, and narrowly selfish.

John Edward Williams

#12. The worst judge of all is the man now most ready with his judgments; the ill-educated Christian turning gradually into the ill-tempered agnostic, entangled in the end of a feud of which he never understood the beginning, blighted

G.K. Chesterton

#13. I opine-I think you're a woman of your world,' he said from the far end of the couch. 'I would have a hard time seeing you pressed and powdered, dreading a life of servitude under the name of marriage. You'd die in that mold. I like you as you are, fiery and ill tempered.

Kim Harrison

#14. Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am.

C.S. Lewis

#15. I give nightly praise to my Maker that I never cast a ballot to bring that lazy, disreputable, ill-tempered beast into what was once my home. I'm glad that I had the courage to go on record as opposing that illegitimate, shameless flea-bag that now shares my bed and board. You abstainer, you!

Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.

#16. Lazy people are some of the most exhausted, dissatisfied, and ill-tempered folks around because the joy-backed promises of laziness our lies.

Matt Chandler

#17. Do not be awed by giant predecessors. Be ill-tempered with their renown. Point out flaws. Frighten interviewers from Time. Appear in Playboy. Sell to the movies.

Vladimir Nabokov

#18. The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar ... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

Aldous Huxley

#19. If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.

Margaret Mead

#20. I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope.

John Lennon

#21. Nothing is irreversible except
dying.

Danielle Steel

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

Emily Bronte

#23. The days will have more hours while you are gone away.

Emily Dickinson

#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. Then we feel the divine nature dwelling in everything, and encounter the One in everything.

Ilchi Lee

#26. History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.

Steve Berry

#27. I'm not the next anyone, I'm the first Maria Sharapova.

Maria Sharapova