Quotes with temper

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  • Samuel Butler It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • C. S. Lewis 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.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Edmund Burke It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Charles Dickens It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • George Eliot It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Barbara Windsor Jessie Wallace was the first time I erupted. She was late, she was young. She's not like that any more. I lost my temper. It was silly and I burst into tears and ran up to the producer. I said I had been terrible and amateur.
    Barbara Windsor
    English actress (1937 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Anthony Trollope Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Paine Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard My dad's more three-dimensional than Opie Taylor or Richie Cunningham. He even has a temper! He's a real person. But some people are disappointed by that.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Baltasar Gracián Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • William Shakespeare O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Calamity Jane On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother.
    Calamity Jane
    American frontierswoman (1852 - 1903)
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  • William James Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Edward Weston Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.
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  • Abraham Lincoln Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Harriet Martineau Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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