I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody. '
Hagrid looked down at his umbrella and scratched his beard. 'Shouldn'ta lost me temper,' he said ruefully, 'but it didn't work anyway. Meant ter turn him into a pig, but I suppose he was so much like a pig anyway there wasn't much left ter do.
The Mum has the temper of a demon with a diaper rash. (Shamus)
The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened.
Alas, for the effects of bad tea and bad temper!
I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.
…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.
Anger is the ultimate troublemaker. I feel you can express a strong disapproval or dislike of an object without losing your temper.
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax.
Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.
I like weather better than climate. The dry season is a gold vacuum; but the rainy season has change, which is weather. And while climate may create a race, weather creates the temper and sensibility of the individual.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness
One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.
They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs.
You're so very good at that. The temper, the scowl. You must drink shots of testosterone in your morning coffee.
Ive struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.
Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.
As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.