Quotes about temper

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

— Frank Moore Colby

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.

— William Cowper

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

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

— George Eliot

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— William Hazlitt

Good temper is an estate for life.

— William Hazlitt

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

— Washington Irving

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

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

— Addison Mizner

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.

— William Penn

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

— Ezra Pound

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.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

When you're in the right, you can afford to keep your temper. When in the wrong, you can't afford to lose it.

— Source Unknown

Most people give off as much heat as a 100 watt bulb, but not as much light.

— Source Unknown

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

— Oscar Wilde