Quotes of: Temper Keyword

An awful lot has been written about my temper.

Norman Schwarzkopf

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Pope John Paul II

You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.

Peter Oliver

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

Tacitus

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

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

Rachel Stevens

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Stephen Fry

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Charles Dickens

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

John Malkovich

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.

Dirk Bogarde

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

William Warburton

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Sydney J. Harris

Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

Lactantius

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

Washington Irving

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

Washington Irving

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

Middlemarch

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.

Louis D. Brandeis

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

Samuel Butler