Top 141 Temper Quotes

The Queen rarely loses her temper, but when she does, she brooks no argument.
Ingrid Seward
I don’t temper how I feel. I’m Greek. I’ve got emotions.
Nia Vardalos
Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and ‘play the game,’ and these are the best of training for any game of life.
Robert Baden-Powell
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
Apparently, my father was funny. I didn’t really know him, but people have theories that the gag-smith gene trickles down through the blood amongst other terrible traits like a big nose and a temper.
Aisling Bea
Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
William Hazlitt
Losing your patience and your temper isn’t the most attractive thing, but as kids get older, you wind up raising your voice.
Peter Krause
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.
Edward Weston
My personality is more like my mother’s. She was fiery. She had more of a temper. I always thought she had enough determination that she could do anything. She could fix anything. I think all children need that feeling from their parents.
Kelvin Sampson
It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.
Richard Harding Davis
As for ‘Bigg Boss,’ it’s a risky territory, I don’t know what would happen if I lose my temper or someone does in the house; or they try to get into personal space. It might sound crazy but I feel I am old fashioned and conventional that way.
Mukul Dev
I have a temper, but I wouldn’t call me abusive.
Tatum O’Neal
You draw the best things from your parents and family. You’re going to pick up some of the bad things as well – there’s a temper that runs through my dad’s side of the family that I’m not especially keen on picking up a giant block of.
Mark Ronson
Much of the legend surrounding my mother is true. She was a beautiful, talented, warmhearted woman who had the greatest sense of humor. At the same time, she was a sharp, fiery lady who was full of spunk and had a flashy temper.
Yasmin Aga Khan
My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that’s why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.
Desi Arnaz
The combination between the speed, personality, and being able to temper your emotions in both directions is a great ingredient.
Toto Wolff
I’m very violent in the ring. I don’t know if it’s the Italian temper, I can get very nasty in there. But outside, I’m the easiest-going guy in the world.
Bruno Sammartino
I used to be afraid of my temper, but it turns out I don’t really have one.
Zoe Bell
Yes, I have my outbursts but I’m not nasty. And I only lose my temper for the right reasons.
Megan McKenna
I’ve repeatedly tried to curb my temper.
Nana Patekar
I have a terrible temper. I have absolutely no problem with getting shouty or a bit physical. It’s not something I’m pleased about and it doesn’t happen very often, but it’s very much there.
Michael Sheen
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
Bruce Lee
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Joseph Joubert
The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.
Charles Perrault
I lost my temper on stage.
Michael Richards
I still have a temper, I suppose.
John Malkovich
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
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
Honore de Balzac
I wish I hadn't lost it, and for the rest of my life I

I wish I hadn’t lost it, and for the rest of my life I can never again lose my temper on TV. The BBC could have sacked me and that would have been the end of my career on TV.
John Sweeney
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
Do I ever really lose my temper? Goodness me, no. Not at home or at work. There’s no point in getting in a tizz over anything. Life’s too short.
June Whitfield
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
Louis D. Brandeis
In the two novels I have published, it was my fortune at different times, and from different persons, to hear the most unqualified censure long before it was possible for me to hear the voice of the public. But my temper was not altered, nor my courage subdued.
William Godwin
A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.
Robert Baden-Powell
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Khalil Gibran
I’ve struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.
Susannah York
I was definitely a tyrant – ask any dancer I’ve worked with. They were surprised if I was ever nice to them. I had a terrible temper.
Arlene Phillips
Everyone has a temper, but in Sweden, no one throws a racquet or screams. We show more manners and common sense. This is a game, not war.
Mats Wilander
I’ve started meditating, but I do have a quick temper.
Casey Wilson
It’s very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you’re doing.
Warren Christopher
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.
Paige VanZant
Had I not went to jail I may not be alive. My temper was really awful.
Da Brat
I’m a stubborn guy that loses his temper, sometimes driving the station wagon in the wrong direction for hours and hours and never admitting that he’s gone the wrong way.
Matt Berninger
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Orson Welles
I kind of resent the suggestion that there would be something inherent about superheroes that wouldn’t be of interest to women. That makes me nuts. I’m a 5-foot tall woman with a quick temper who always looks like a child, so power fantasies are not strange to me.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
I don’t lose my temper. I used to, but I realised I would probably die of a brain hemorrhage. So I’ve governed myself not to mind about things. I have no road rage or anything like that. Because it’s life-shortening. And also, there’s no need for it; it uses up energy.
Joanna Lumley
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
John Keats
I think I’m the only singer who doesn’t have a temper. The only time I got angry was at a music studio when I was made to wait for three hours without being informed about the delay in the recording.
Sunidhi Chauhan
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
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
Walter Pater
I have a short temper – I think it’s part of the Celtic background. I used to be a lot more angry, but I was quite discreet with it.
Julian Lennon
That’s one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don’t want to, I don’t care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.
James Lee Burke
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.’
Tony Dorsett
I have made a few mistakes with my temper, I know. But I have learned from that.
Dele Alli
While I am in this world, I am resolved that no vexation shall put me out of temper if I can possibly command myself. Even old age, which is making strides towards me, shall not prevail to make me peevish.
Samuel Adams
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving
Only when emotion is involved do you get angry and lose your temper. You could have different points of view, but as long as it is constructive dissent, it is fun.
Kumar Mangalam Birla
A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke
As a kid I lost my temper quite easily and tended to look away from the game itself. Now I know how to manage that and get the best out of myself.
Ben Stokes
Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.

Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
Louis XIV
I have a strange – because there’s no other way probably of describing it – uh, temper. I’m a very difficult taskmaster. I don’t wait.
Ashraf Ghani
I’m a really goofy person most of the time, and I have to sometimes temper my hyper self on set.
Lauren Cohan
I wouldn’t say I have a bad temper.
Nana Patekar
I liked the story and wanted to do it, but I guess the time for the project came now, because I had to change my image through movies like ‘Temper’ and ‘Nannaku Prematho’ to finally suit the script of ‘Janata Garage.’
N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.