Top 100 Quotes About Temper
#1. I regard myself as a religious ... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#2. There is less alms-giving in America than in any other Christian country on the face of the globe. It is not in the temper of the people either to give or to receive.
Frances Trollope
#3. Never lose temper or get angry at a person who deserves your love. Remember everyone is craving for and deserves your love.
Debasish Mridha
#4. Jessie Wallace was the first time I erupted. She was late, she was young. She's not like that any more. I lost my temper. It was silly and I burst into tears and ran up to the producer. I said I had been terrible and amateur.
Barbara Windsor
#5. There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper ...
May Sarton
#6. A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to pick up the twenty, and split them all. Then he lost his temper, scattered the peas in all directions and ran away
Leo Tolstoy
#7. I should not have called you a menace. I'm afraid I allowed my temper to get the best of me, and I spoke out of anger."
Arabella's eyes turned a little misty. "That's when the truth comes out the loudest.
Jen Turano
#8. A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.
David O. McKay
#9. Absurdly, irrationally, she believed that music could make a difference to the temper of the world.She did not investigate this belief, test it to see whether it made sense;she simply believed it, and so she chose music that expressed order and healing:Bach for order, Mozart for healing.
Alexander McCall Smith
#10. School yourself in all occasions to keep perfectly cool; maintain a perfect control of temper, come what will: one that can govern himself can govern others.
Roseanne Montillo
#11. Clary," Jace said again. "You know: short, redheaded, bad temper.
Cassandra Clare
#12. ...A mule kicked him in the head." She paused, and then said, "I always wondered if he provoked it. Deliberately."
Radzin snorted. "Suicide by mule?"
"Everyone knew that animal had a temper."
"There would be a dozen better ways to do it.
Helene Wecker
#13. With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his.
Jane Austen
#14. It is vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God forgiveness on your own behalf, if you refuse to exercise this forgiving temper with respect to others.
Benjamin Hoadly
#15. Silvia Dunne's voice sounded calm and even, but April knew her mother was like a grenade with the pin out - she could explode any minute.
Mia James
#16. It is also important to guard against mistaking for good-nature what is properly good-humor,
a cheerful flow of spirits and easy temper not readily annoyed, which is compatible with great selfishness.
Richard Whately
#17. Lesson one, bitch. Don't start a pissing contest with someone who has the strength and temper to hurt you.
Anne Bishop
#18. But certain winds will make men's temper bad.
George Eliot
#20. Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
Chuck Norris
#21. I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and temper can stand any attack on it.
Harriet Martineau
#22. 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
#23. Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God.
James MacDonald
#24. Fancourt can't write women,' said Nina dismissively. 'He tries but he can't do it. His women are all temper, tits and tampons.
Robert Galbraith
#25. 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
#26. 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.
Kristin Cashore
#27. The old middle-class prerogative of being permanently in a most filthy temper.
John Mortimer
#28. In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#29. Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of their good purpose all to curd. Their zeal begotten, as their works rehearse, By lean despair upon an empty purse.
William Cowper
#30. By music minds an equal temper know,
Nor swell too high, nor sink too low.
...
Warriors she fires with animated sounds.
Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
Alexander Pope
#31. He had his mother's looks, his father's temper, and nobody's brains.
Craig Johnson
#32. He [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father.
Robertson Davies
#33. People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.
Mahatma Gandhi
#34. The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.
Franz Grillparzer
#36. More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
Arthur Helps
#37. To rip off a piece of lover's temper was a pleasure in her deepest vein of enjoyment.
Saul Bellow
#38. In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.
Edmund Spenser
#39. If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am:
I'm a genuine philanthropist
all other kinds are sham.
Each little fault of temper and each social defect
In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.
W.S. Gilbert
#40. On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother.
Calamity Jane
#41. The acquisition of True Temper broadens our lawn and garden product line with outstanding, highly respected brands, ... The purchase also expands USI Hardware and Tool's customer base and provides additional capacity for future growth.
David A. Clarke, Jr
#42. She's my sister. I'll handle this."
"She's my wife," Arik shot back. "Husband trumps the brother card. So get the fuck out and don't come back until you have your temper under control.
Larissa Ione
#43. Now, invite me in, before I lose my temperature.'
'Temper, you mean.'
'No, temperature. It's getting chilly.
Steven Erikson
#44. Quite naturally, the men who led in stirring up the revolt against Great Britain and in keeping the fighting temper of the Revolutionists at the proper heat were the boldest and most radical thinkers - men like Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson.
Charles A. Beard
#46. Princess, your temper tantrums make you as defective as an open-ended condom.
Gena Showalter
#47. You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.
Peter Oliver
#48. O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee
To temper man: we had been brutes without you.
Thomas Otway
#49. I understand her immediately. She is an instigator, a fire starter, an accelerant of a human being, throwing herself into the middle of a crowd and lighting it up. She is fucking lighter fluid.
Marjorie Celona
#50. That morning, lying with the woman I loved, a silent promise was formed in my head. I was going to be a better man for her, someone she deserved. No more flying off the handle. No more temper tantrums, or violent outbursts.
Jamie McGuire
#51. Quinn," Alaric said quietly. "His aim is to ignite your temper. Perhaps you might allow me the chance to assist you this one time?"
"Fine, but you seem to be making a habit of it," she shot back. "We can discuss that later, too. Be my guest."
Alyssa Day
#53. I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined.
Leo Tolstoy
#54. He doesn't beat me," I said irritably. "I'd kill him if he did."
"She would. She has a temper. Stubborn, too. But we're working on that, aren't we, Ms. Lane?
Karen Marie Moning
#55. to understand him, the temper and the challenge, the brokenness and the stubbornness,
Lisa-Jo Baker
#56. A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness
Robert Southey
#57. 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
#58. His temper might perhaps be a little soured [ ... ]'Mr. Palmer is just the kind of man I like,
Jane Austen
#59. I have a short temper - I think it's part of the Celtic background. I used to be a lot more angry, but I was quite discreet with it.
Julian Lennon
#60. Is that not the whole point of gaining experience, to use it to make wiser choices, to temper destructive instincts, to find better resolutions?
R.A. Salvatore
#61. All my life, people have taken my shyness for sullenness, snobbery, bad temper of one sort or another.
Donna Tartt
#62. The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.
John Quincy Adams
#63. I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.
Susanna Clarke
#64. Ask yourself how many shots you would have saved if you always developed a strategy before you hit, always played within your capabilities, never lost you temper, and never got down on yourself.
Jack Nicklaus
#65. I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy.
Harvey Weinstein
#66. In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
Rudyard Kipling
#67. She often had a temper that made a PMS-ing harpy going into nicotine withdrawal look like a chubby fuzzy bunny that burped daisies and shot rainbows out its ass.
Amy Lane
#68. Cursed, he once cried in a fit of rage. His temper has always been as restless and unpredictable as the sea itself. But his words had power behind them and I felt the effects instantly. Too late to take it back.
Jennifer Silverwood
#69. It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.
Mark Twain
#70. Take the god's gift. Become the Fury.
It was time to become the monster Merik had been all along. No more numbed distance. No more fighting the Nihar temper. Only vicious, hungry heat.
One for the sake of many; vengeance for those he'd lost.
Susan Dennard
#71. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
#72. This is Deirdre," said Addison. "She's an emu-raffe, which is a bit like a donkey and a giraffe put together, only with fewer legs and a peevish temper. She's a terrible sore loser at cards," he added in a whisper. "Never play an emu-raffe at cards. Say hello, Deirdre!
Ransom Riggs
#73. I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.
Janet Jackson
#74. It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
Samuel Butler
#75. Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.
Elsie De Wolfe
#76. 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
#77. Often, you know.' 'I don't know,' said the Caterpillar. Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in her life before, and she felt that she was losing her temper. 'Are you content now?' said the Caterpillar. 'Well, I should like
Lewis Carroll
#78. A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.
Marcel Boulestin
#79. I see you inherited your father's temper," Darrow sneered. "Is this how you plan to rule? When you don't like someone, you'll threaten them?
Sarah J. Maas
#80. Let somebody insult you and see that that you do not answer back. Just see it, not to get into temper. Try that your ego doesn't react. That can be achieved very easily if you try in the mirror, look at yourself and laugh at yourself, make fun of yourself.
Nirmala Srivastava
#81. Why was it that her temper and her thinking never happened at the same time? Her temper behaved like a glutton sitting in an expensive restaurant ordering a hundred dishes, only to disappear when the bill came due. It left her lucid mind to do dishes.
Ann Brashares
#82. The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#83. A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#84. I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.
Willie Nelson
#85. 17 A man of c quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated. 18 The simple inherit folly,
Anonymous
#86. Mr. Llewellyn, on the other hand, said there were worse things in life than a temper, that it only proved one had an opinion.
Kate Morton
#87. Why should I be scared of an oversized bat who likes to throw temper tantrums?
Sarah J. Maas
#88. My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.
Marilyn Manson
#89. The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.
Robert Frost
#90. You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul.
Margaret Weis
#91. 'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least.
Isaac Newton
#92. I held the dubious honor of being the one person who could make cool, collected Nick lose his temper.
Jennifer Echols
#93. Imogenia's temper flared. "I was to become queen when you died, Father! He will pay," she snarled. "Honey," the king objected, "I'm not going to say I understand how you feel, but not forgiving someone hurts you, not the one you hate.
L.R.W. Lee
#94. So far, I haven't been all that impressed by your flaws. You drink more than you should, you have trouble controlling your impulses, and you have a temper. All of those are practically requirements in the Hathaway family.
Lisa Kleypas
#95. I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper.
Henry Rollins
#96. A sunny temper [an attitude of gratitude for what blessings and mercies there are] gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud.
Thomas Guthrie
#97. I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was the only crack, but a disturbing one, in the otherwise vacuum-sealed casing of my behavior.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#98. Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
William Warburton
#99. Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.
Hugh Blair
#100. Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.
William Wordsworth
