Temper Quotes

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick.

President Clinton knew the course and goes, 'Here's what you want to do here.' By the fourth hole, you wanted to hit him with your putter.

A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

Beware the anger of a patient man.

I very, very, very rarely lose my temper. I do get cross sometimes when encountering something that I feel is improper, that I feel is lacking in justice and equity, and this all sounds very pompous and over the top - but these are the things that really upset me: intolerance, prejudice etc. I suppose in more mundane matters, I'm impatient.

My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

I've thrown or broken a few clubs in my day. In fact, I guess at one time or another I probably held distance records for every club in the bag.

I have a hell-fire temper.

Anger is a choice, as well as a habit. It is a learned reaction to frustration, in which you behave in ways that you would rather not. In fact, severe anger is a form of insanity. You are insane whenever you are not in control of your behavior. Therefore, when you are angry and out of control, you are temporarily insane.

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

Scottish men of a certain age have a black response to almost everything as a measure of how sophisticated they are. I have a very long fuse that eventually explodes after building up a nice head of steam, although it's only happened three times - usually at work when someone takes me for granted.

The cholerick man never wants woe.

I'm Gordon Ramsay, for goodness sake: people know I'm volatile.

Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they’re feeling righteous.

Why, what a temper you are in!

I have an aggressive streak of my own.

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

People seem to think of me as a goody-goody who never curses, but I can be very nasty if I'm pushed. Cross me too many times, and I'll never talk to you again.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

I feel much alarmed at the prospect of seeing General Jackson President. He is one of the most unfit men I know of for such a place. He has had very little respect for laws and constitutions, and is, in fact, an able military chief. His passions are terrible.

At the moment I was mad enough to chew up nails and spit out paper clips.