It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper.
Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.
I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.
I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control.
My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or that they don't have a bad temper, or that they have never done anything they feel ashamed of. But fiction operates on people waking up trying to be horrible, and I don't think most people are trying to be horrible.
I am nothing but a miserable, crushed worm, whom no one wants, whom no one loves, a useless creature with morning sickness, and abig belly, two rotten teeth, and a bad temper, a battered sense of dignity, and a love which nobody wants and which nearly drives me insane.
It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.
Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others
We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our lusts, we overcome our fears, we overcome our pettiness on the basis of the blood of the Lamb.
Alas, for the effects of bad tea and bad temper!
I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.
I truly thought I might hurt that man," he said, "very badly." "I didn't know you were capable of such bad temper." "Apparently I am.
There are so many highly esteemed ones who became miserable and humiliated just because of their bad temper and morals; and humble people who have attained eminence and the highest honors because of good temper and morals.
I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.
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.
I'm half Scotch-Irish on both sides, and when I lose my temper-brother, I go.
The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence, ingenuity, virtue, and humanity as inferior to the Spaniards as children are to adults and women are to men, there being as much difference between them as that between wild and cruel and very merciful persons, the prodigiously intemperate and the continent and tempered, and I daresay from apes to men
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