Temper Quotes

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

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

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

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety."

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

I can be very passionate but I also have a bit of a hot temper - when pushed.

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