Temper Quotes
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...but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.
Jane Austen -
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
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More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
Philip James Bailey -
Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
William James -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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Temper justice with mercy.
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 -
For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.
John Milton -
Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.
John Milton -
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 -
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
Charles Dickens
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My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away.
Vinnie Jones -
Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect.
William Arthur Ward -
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 -
Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.
William Hazlitt -
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 -
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
William Butler Yeats
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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 -
Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.
Elsie de Wolfe -
Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.
Lewis Carroll