Quotes
Quotes about Temper
The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest in his shade When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So ling lives this, and this gives life to thee.
The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two noblest of things"--as Swift . . . most happily calls them in his Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and light."
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.
Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason.
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong.
A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Good temper is an estate for life.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance.
Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.
A person's fate is their own temper.
The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
