Lewis Carroll Quotes

Why, what a temper you are in!

Lewis Carroll

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• Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Religion
  • Temper
  • Pursuit

• I admit I have a Hungarian temper. Why not? I am from Hungary. We are descendants of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Temper
  • Descendants
  • Hungarian

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

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • Temper

• It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they're not around. I don't really like the sound of that, 'cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I'm just very black and white when it comes to my business. There's really no gray area.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Business
  • Black

• Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Honesty
  • Demands
  • Temper

• There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness ... but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Empathy

• Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Modern
  • Temper

• I have often urged my young friends, when faced with an adversary, to "play polo" with him; i.e., not to go at him bald-headed but to ride side by side with him and gradually edge him off your track. Never lose your temper with him. If you are in the right there is no need to, if you are in the wrong you can't afford to.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Friends
  • Friendship
  • Track

• It could happen in any game, but you know what? I don't hold any grudges. He's probably bitter still, but I'm just going to continue to pray for him, and hopefully it will get better, his temper will change. I still have respect for his bat, he's a good hitter and I'm just going to continue to do what I have to do. And I was glad that, when I'm OK, I don't need to hit anybody.

  

  Pedro Martinez
  • Game
  • Change
  • Temper

• A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.

  

  William Cowper
  • Joy
  • Passionate
  • Fierce

• Good temper is an estate for life.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Life
  • Temper
  • Estates

• Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

  

  William James
  • Religious
  • Facts
  • Esteem

• '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
  • Religion
  • Mankind
  • Hot

• I can fully appreciate the fury and anger that a person can feel when put through a humiliating experience by a cop, but I would recommend strongly that a person maintain his cool, and in no circumstances lose his temper. If you lose your temper, you are playing right into the cop's hands.

  

  William Powell
  • Circumstances
  • Appreciate
  • Temper

• O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heaven
  • Sweet
  • Mad

• Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

  

  William Warburton
  • Mind
  • Imagination
  • Judgment

• 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
  • Changed
  • Temper
  • Severe

• Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Destiny
  • Temper
  • Mania

• Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

  

  Confucius
  • Direct
  • Sincerity
  • Effected

• The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Heart
  • Down
  • Paper

• We have to find areas in our lives that we feel most uncomfortable about and want to change. I decided to push myself because it allowed me to give back. I have a scholarship program. When I found out the average age of a homeless person is 9½ years old, I said there must be something that I can do. Now, I am the spokesman for the National Coalition for the Homeless.

  

  Farrah Gray
  • Program
  • Average
  • Uncomfortable

• The politicians of New York as not so fastidious as some gentlemen are, as to disclosing the principles on which they act. They boldly preach what they practice...if they are defeated, they expect to retire from office. If they are successful, they claim, as a matter of right, the advantages of success. They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy.

  

  William L. Marcy
  • Successful
  • Advantage
  • Gentleman

• Why, what a temper you are in!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Temper