Quotes About Temper

Temper, temper, wee English. 'Tis truly most becoming to you.

Och, and there's your Scots blood, lass," he said with a faint smile. "A fine bit o' temper too.

first requisite of a really good officer is to temper justice with mercy'. As

Letting his gaze travel possessively over her, he drank in the loveliness of her face as she sat in a ray of sunlight. 'To be sure, she had a temper to match those red streaks in her golden hair,' he thought fondly. Her pale blond eyebrows were knitted in thought as she worked. She had luxurious lashes and cobalt eyes with the power to devastate him. She had a smattering of light freckles on her cheeks and fine, aristocratic features.

When you let anger get the best of you, it brings out the worst in you. The key question is who is in control—you or your emotions? Remember, before you can control your performance you need to be in control of yourself.

The best remedy for anger is delay.

One might say that, for Stendhal, it is the uncertainty of the metaphor of love – of whether the beloved will become in her turn a lover – that keeps the lover interested. If he becomes certain of her love for him, he might well become blasé. Without doubt, without constant vacillation and uncertainty orchestrated by the woman's sudden moods and fits of bad temper, the lover would become complacent and lose his passion.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

I have some anger issues.

Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon.

Curran let our a ragged snarl and punched the other wall. It burst and the entire wreck of the house came down in a fountain of dust. He shook his hand, his knuckles bloody. Bricks are hard, I told him patiently, as if to a child. Don't hit bricks. No, no. Curran picked up a brick and snapped it in half. Idiot

I was a big fighter when I was younger. In bars I was ready to explode and fight.

Everybody has a temper, but mine was set on a hair trigger.

I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.

I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.

It's easy to make a cue last a lifetime. Don't boil it or freeze it in the trunk of a car. Don't lean it against a wall for years. If you lose a game to a complete idiot, hit the edge of the table in anger with something other than your cue.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Smite me now. I am not worthy of this company." "Ah, pride," said the angel. "You must learn to temper its excesses. I'll not smite you.

Sweet child. He stamps his foot and we find it endearing. We curb our temper and spare him the rod. What gentle parents we are." "We are indeed," Mordryn said. "We are indeed.

He was such a serene creature, fits of temper or melancholy on Khaster's part barely touched him. Tayven was a being of light, and now Khaster craved those rays. He could see how it might be easy to become addicted to Tayven's presence. It was all that Almorante had promised.

Control your anger before it controls you

We quarreled, he said. Things were said that shouldn't have been said on both sides. But that girl has such a temper, you wouldn't believe it... She threatened to leave us and said she'd never come back.

You don't have to get out. I know how to let myself in, she said. I'll get you at the door and walk you to it when I return you. It's part of my job, woman, he said. Her temper flared. Don't you ever call me woman. I'm not backwoods white trash. I have a name and don't you forget it.

My pride had risen up and whopped me in the face. I don't lose my temper a lot, but when I do, I make a good job of it.