(204 quotes found)
“Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.”
William Blake
“I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me.”
Lisa Marie Presley
“Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.”
Orson Welles
“A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.”
George Grenville
“O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad.”
William Shakespeare
“Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.”
Charles Dickens
“Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.”
Chuck Norris
“You've got a shocking temper.”
Miranda Otto
“As the sword of the best tempered metal is most flexible, so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors”
Thomas Fuller
“There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.”
Antisthenes
