Quotes About Temper

I'm very violent in the ring. I don't know if it's the Italian temper, I can get very nasty in there. But outside, I'm the easiest-going guy in the world.

I have recurring dreams about losing my temper, which become quite violent. I dread to think what that says about me.

I was angry when I was young, but I was never really that violent. I hardly ever fought, mainly because I wasn't very good at it.

A virtuous character is likened to an unblemished flower. Piety is a fadeless bud that half opens on earth and expands through eternity. Sweetness of temper is the odor of fresh blooms, and the amaranth flowers of pure affection open but to bloom forever.

I'd been mistaking feeling less for feeling better. The feelings are still there, though. They come out in unconscious behaviors, in an inability to sit still, in a mind that hungers for the next distraction, in a lack of appetite or a struggle to control one's appetite, in a short-temperedness,

Well, maybe her need to be right will be tempered by her curiosity.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

When you lose your temper, you lose yourself—on the mat as well as in life.

But I am bold to say there is not a fact nor a reason stated in it, which had not been frequently urged in Congress. The temper and wishes of the people supplied every thing at that time; and the phrases, suitable for an emigrant from Newgate, or one who had chiefly associated with such company, such as, "The Royal Brute of England," "The blood upon his soul," and a few others of equal delicacy, had as much weight with the people as his arguments.

For him, petulance was a pastime.

Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go

Don't let my looks deceive you. I have the mouth of a sailor, the temper of an Italian housewife, and the tolerance of an Irishman.

Slamming the door shut, so everybody in the house knows you're pissed off.

You could arm-wrestle with a T. rex and win, but you shouldn't because it only makes them mad.

Fighting angry and fighting mad isn't good.

Getting mad only leads to madness.

For a moment it seemed as if he was going to lose his temper too. His strange, pale eyes all but glared at Sophie. But he controlled himself and said, Now trot along indoors, you overactive old thing, and find something else to play with before I get angry. I hate getting angry.

Polaris often remarks to Sol that Sirius loses his temper much less often these days. But the one sure way to send him into a flaming rage is to suggest that he finds a new Companion. Sirius will not hear of it. The small white sphere circling his goes untenanted, because he hopes that what Miss Smith said is true.

The customer glared. Then she threw the bonnet at Sophie and stormed out of the shop. Sophie carefully crammed the bonnet into the wastebasket, panting rather. The rule was: Lose your temper, lose a customer. She had just proved that rule. It troubled her to realise how very enjoyable it had been.

The rule was: Lose your temper, lose a customer. She had just proved that rule. It troubled her to realise how very enjoyable it had been.

Imogen relaxed a little. She dared to sit up. "Cart's blood sugar is low in the mornings," she explained to Fenella. "Is that what it's called?" said Fenella. "I thought it was bad temper.

a man in whom violence boiled below the surface in much the same way that fresh-poured polenta waited for the chance to burn the mouth of anyone who tried to eat it.

Temper [is] a weapon that we hold by the blade.

Instead of finding fault with the fire, I gave thanks for the metal to take the temper and hold it.