Temper Quotes
-
Good temper is an estate for life.
William Hazlitt -
No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.
William Godwin
-
More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
Philip James Bailey -
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
Charles Dickens -
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
George Eliot -
Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
William James -
An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon.
Katherine Cecil Thurston -
He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company under the least repulsive circumstances, one would have wished him to be out of temper that he might only scowl.
Charles Dickens
-
I think I'm the only singer who doesn't have a temper. The only time I got angry was at a music studio when I was made to wait for three hours without being informed about the delay in the recording.
Sunidhi Chauhan -
Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect.
William Arthur Ward -
Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.
John Milton -
When I was 13, 14 and 15, she was a role model. She was one of the few skaters that didn't lose her temper, that would have a bad day and have a great attitude.
Sasha Cohen -
Temper justice with mercy.
John Milton -
For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.
John Milton
-
Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.
John Milton -
I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away.
Vinnie Jones -
Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
Miguel de Cervantes -
I don't know whether I make myself plain, but I never lose my temper over the stock market. I never argue with the tape. Getting sore at the market doesn't get you anywhere.
Jesse Livermore -
Introspection with inference and meaning left out as much as possible becomes a dull taxonomic account of sensory events which, since they suggest almost no functional value for the organism, are peculiarly uninteresting to the American scientific temper.
Edwin Boring
-
Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.
William Hazlitt -
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
William Butler Yeats -
Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.
Elsie de Wolfe -
Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.
Lewis Carroll