Temper Quotes
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“I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“Almost every woman I have ever met has a secret belief that she is just on the edge of madness, that there is some deep, crazy part within her, that she must be on guard constantly against ‘losing control’ — of her temper, of her appetite, of her sexuality, of her feelings, of her ambition, of her secret fantasies, of her mind.”
― Sinister Wisdom 36: Surviving Psychiatric Assault & Creating Emotional Well-Being in Our Communities
― Sinister Wisdom 36: Surviving Psychiatric Assault & Creating Emotional Well-Being in Our Communities
“There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general:
(1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction;
(2) cowardice, which leads to capture;
(3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults;
(4) a delicacy of honor which is sensitive to shame;
(5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.”
― The Art of War
(1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction;
(2) cowardice, which leads to capture;
(3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults;
(4) a delicacy of honor which is sensitive to shame;
(5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.”
― The Art of War
“When a man wears his pants that tight, they tend to pinch his balls, and that tends to pinch his temper.”
― Queen of the Darkness
― Queen of the Darkness
“What irritates me most of all about these morning people is their horribly good temper, as if they have been up for three hours and already conquered France.”
― Er ist wieder da
― Er ist wieder da
“The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?”
― Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
― Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
“I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.”
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose your temper, your equilibrium, then he can always keep you under subjection.”
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“Passion is wholehearted devotion; it is fervor and agony; it is temper and zeal.”
― The Queen’s Rising
― The Queen’s Rising
“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.”
― Hard Times
― Hard Times
“So, what you're saying is that I bring out your book - wielding, short tempered side?" He hooked his foot through the straps of my backpack and brought in front of him. "Removing temptation."
I gave him a look that communicated he should wither and die.”
― Intrinsical
I gave him a look that communicated he should wither and die.”
― Intrinsical
“Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses that they are good people: there are others with faults of temper, &c., evident enough, beside whom we live content, as if the air about them did us good.”
― Villette
― Villette
“Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd.”
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“He [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father.”
― Fifth Business
― Fifth Business
“I've seen what you're going to understand, dear.
It made me patient when confronting your temper.”
― Master of Stupidity
It made me patient when confronting your temper.”
― Master of Stupidity
“Whenever a woman tries to put you out of temper, turn the tables, and put HER out of temper instead. They are generally prepared for every effort you can make in your own defence, but that. One word does it as well as a hundred; and one word did it with Limping Lucy. I looked her pleasantly in the face; and I said—"Pooh!”
― The Moonstone
― The Moonstone
“. . . the sole aim of Okinawa Karate is to teach A person to handle violence and violent individuals; whether it is tactile, mental or spiritual”
― KARATE POWER Lethal power of Fajin
― KARATE POWER Lethal power of Fajin
“And the way you lost your temper!" went on Wallis enthusiastically. "Oh, Mr. Allan, it was beautiful! You haven't been more than to say snarly since the accident! It was so like the way you used to throw hair-brushes--”
― The Rose-Garden Husband
― The Rose-Garden Husband
“Don’t start trying to throw your weight around with me, little twig. I can make you submit in a hundred different ways before the sun comes up.”
“Even if you broke my back, I still wouldn’t bow to you,” I snarled.
“This again,” Andel sighed.
“Do you two need to arm-wrestle, or can we move on?” Vidrol asked blandly. “We can throw you in a pen to roll around in the mud later”
― A Dream of Embers
“Even if you broke my back, I still wouldn’t bow to you,” I snarled.
“This again,” Andel sighed.
“Do you two need to arm-wrestle, or can we move on?” Vidrol asked blandly. “We can throw you in a pen to roll around in the mud later”
― A Dream of Embers
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