Quotes about Temper

“Good temper is an estate for life.”

“Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.”

“I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.”

“Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.”

“Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.”

“The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.”

“The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.”

“It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.”

“Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason.”

“A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.”

“Take care; you know I am compliance itself, when I am not thwarted! No one more easily led, when I have my own way; but don't put me in a frenzy.”

“A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper -- a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.”

“Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.”

“A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.”