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The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

Music inflames temperament.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.

You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

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.

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.

Health consists with temperance alone.

I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety."

I lost my temper on stage.