(204 quotes found)
“Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.”
Oscar Wilde
“The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.”
Wilson Mizner
“Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious,Loyal and neutral, in a moment?No man.”
William Shakespeare
“Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.”
James Matthew Barrie
“An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper”
Kahlil Gibran
“She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.”
Jane Austen
“He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.”
Proverb
“'Keep your temper,' said the Caterpillar”
Lewis Carroll
“I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.”
Julia Roberts
“Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.”
William Allen White
