Quotes About Temper

Yet we ought to kill someone!' said the gentleman, immediately reverting to his former subject. 'I have been quite out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.

You were always cheerful - tho' often left to your own devices. You were hardly ever out of temper - tho' often severely provoked. Your every speech was remarkable for its wit and genius - tho' you got no credit for it and almost always received a flat contradiction.

the brush and flung it across the dressing

The thing is," Elliot said neutrally, "people lose their temper and strike out, and human beings are pretty fragile when you get down to it.

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

Long ago, I conquered my anger and placed it in my pocket. When I have need of it, I take it out.

She sincerely wishes success, for her new life, and intends that no failure of effort, temper, or spirits on her part will jeopardise it.

The wall of it rose between them, higher than any she could raise with power. Too high by far to leap, too sheer to scale. But a gate—that, God willing, they could build. If she could learn to trust him again. If he could learn to rule his temper.

Why why why was he being such an ass?

As she walked slowly down the hall, she could hear them arguing - nothing violent, nothing impassioned. But then, she'd not have expected that. Cavendish tempers ran cold, and they were far more likely to attack with a frozen barb than a heated cry.

I get angry very fast, and it's intense. I start breathing heavily, and don't like it.

it seemed much more likely to scald and burn from sex and rage instead.

But th' best thing about a little judicyous swearin' is that it keeps th' temper. 'Twas intinded as a compromise between runnin' away an' fightin'. Befure it was invinted they was on'y th' two ways out iv an argymint.

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

Sometimes fear made you angry. Perhaps after years anger cooled, like a sword taken from a forge. Perhaps in the end you were left with something very cold and very sharp.

He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly...

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet.

I'm a stubborn guy that loses his temper, sometimes driving the station wagon in the wrong direction for hours and hours and never admitting that he's gone the wrong way.

A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.

Anger cancels good judgment.

anger cancels good judgement!

What I knew for sure was that he had a quick temper, a cocky attitude, and a southern accent... Apparently he also has a pet cougar.

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.