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Quotes About Temper

I don't wanna say I have a temper... but I do! I kind of sulk and sit there when I'm bitter. I won't show you, but you can see it. Probably if you bring me Godiva chocolate, I'll be your friend again!
~ Jesse McCartney
It's no good getting angry at saarantrai; the hotter your temper, the colder they get. Eskar remained infuriatingly neutral.
~ Rachel Hartman
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, -- an open and noble temper.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
~ Nathan Fillion
James continued. "The only thing needed henceforward is to inflame the civic temper as past history has inflamed the military temper.
~ Rebecca Solnit
furiosant, for there was certainly more of the mad bull
~ Reginald Hill
Hungry men are not known for their patience or their kindness.
~ Karen Essex
I am quite out of patience with him. Fiona Kincaid set her teacup on the small tray with a decided click. Dougal's been in a horrid temper since he arrived. I like him better this way, Fiona's handsome husband retorted. He barely said a word over breakfast. She gave an exasperated sigh. I'm surprised you two don't get along better, as you're very similar. Jack's flat stare made her add hastily, In some things. In very few things.
~ Karen Hawkins
Every time they lost their tempers, storms would gather. That could be a boon in dry weather.
~ Karen Hawkins
Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this -- heat is making me absolutely crazy.
~ Jack Nicholson
My baby is weird man... when he get mad, he gets in the oven.
~ Kevin Hart
To be in anger is impiety, but who is man that is not angry?
~ William Shakespeare
Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be attended with fatal consequences.
~ Joseph Addison
Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.
~ Oscar Wilde
A man who cannot command his temper, his attention, and his countenance should not think of being a man of business.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity.
~ Benjamin
A man well mounted is ever Cholerick.
~ George Herbert
She was more than willing to let him walk off his temper. And the man had one, even if he wasn't willing to admit it.
~ Nalini Singh
It must have been the lack of nutrients that gave my father his temper. He is not a sweet man despite a very sweet tooth.
~ Nigel Slater
Few things are more agreeable than the spectacle of a man who loses his temper; we should be grateful to such people for providing us with moments of often unsullied delight.
~ Harold Nicolson
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
~ Samuel Butler
From morning to night keep Jesus in thy heart, long for nothing, desire nothing, hope for nothing but to have all that is within thee changed into the spirit and temper of the holy Jesus.
~ William Law
You're so very good at that. The temper, the scowl. You must drink shots of testosterone in your morning coffee.
~ Rob Thurman