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Temper Quotes

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I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit
Elizabeth Taylor

I don't have a fiery temper, I just react swiftly to nonsense.
Authors on Temper Quotes: Benjamin Disraeli John Malkovich Lewis Carroll Ralph Waldo Emerson William Hazlitt Edmund Spenser Stephenie Meyer Hugh Blair William James John C. Maxwell Charles Dickens Helen Reddy Neville Cardus Dalai Lama Tommy Lee Michael Bloomberg Alfred Adler Mark Twain Dirk Bogarde Eva Mendes Naomi Campbell Terry Brooks Joseph Butler Andrew Lau James M. Barrie Edward Gibbon Susannah York Louis XIV Rachel Stevens John Irving Chester Bowles James Gandolfini Baltasar Gracian
2.
Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
Louis XIV

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Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.
Mark Twain

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See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training.
Miyamoto Musashi

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We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
Alfred Adler

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Never lose your temper, except intentionally.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place.
Ava Gardner

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I never liked anyone who didn't have a temper. If you don't have a temper, you don't have any passion.
Michael Bloomberg

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When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured.
Rumi

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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Baltasar Gracian

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He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax.
Bohumil Hrabal

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Lose your temper and you lose the fight.
Margaret Atwood

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It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.
Sean O'Casey

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When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.
Mario Balotelli

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Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.
Lewis Carroll

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It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.
Astley Cooper

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Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
Isaac Watts

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My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away.
Vinnie Jones

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If Zizou kept his temper, he would not be the genius that he is
Zinedine Zidane

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I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.
Janet Jackson

21.
Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.
Terry Brooks

22.
Abstinence is easier than temperance.
Seneca the Younger

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I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.
Paul D. Boyer

24.
For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time.
James Gandolfini

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I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.
John Malkovich

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I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.
Alfie Allen

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There's nothing wrong with losing your temper for the right reasons.
Jock Stein

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A man's fate is his own temper.
Benjamin Disraeli

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Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.
Neville Cardus

31.
Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others
Elbert Hubbard

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Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection.
Horace

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I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends.
Willa Gibbs

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I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.
Julia Roberts

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A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.
Voltaire

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I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.
Tatum O'Neal

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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.
Edmund Spenser

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Good temper is an estate for life.
William Hazlitt

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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
Norman Schwarzkopf

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Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.
David Lloyd George

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I can lose my temper from time to time, but I try not to lose it on the pitch because it can't help.
Andrew Flintoff

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

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Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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…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.
Charles Dickens

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Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.
William Hazlitt

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I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.
Shirley Manson

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Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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WHEN YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT, YOU CAN AFFORD TO KEEP YOUR TEMPER; AND WHEN YOU ARE IN THE WRONG, YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE IT.
Chester Bowles

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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
Warren Christopher

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A person's fate is their own temper.
Benjamin Disraeli