Elizabeth Taylor
Actress
"I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit"
Temper quotes
Temper
108 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Louis XIV
King
"Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there."
Alfred Adler
Psychologist
"We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military Leader, Politician
"Never lose your temper, except intentionally."
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"When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place."
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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."
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"Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong."
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"Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar."
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"Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth."
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"Abstinence is easier than temperance."
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"A man's fate is his own temper."
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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."
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"Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune."
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"Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others"
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"A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate."
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"A person's fate is their own temper."
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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."
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"It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing."
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"Men lose their tempers in defending their taste."
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"Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid."
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"Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper."
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"Alas, for the effects of bad tea and bad temper!"
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"Don't lose your temper; use it."
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"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
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