TEMPER

Related Subjects: Ill-Nature, Temperament

1. He is a little chimney, and heated hot in a moment.—LONGFELLOW, The Courtship of Miles Standish
   

2. It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be dethrimental to
   keep it.—SEAN O'CASEY, The Plough and the Stars
   

3. The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
   

4. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within,
   Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
   

5. High-stomach'd are they both, and full of ire,
   In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard II
   

6. A little pot and soon hot.—SHAKESPEARE, The Taming of the Shrew