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She has always seemed to me the epitome of womankind: coldly suspicious, politely ill-tempered, and narrowly selfish. — John Edward Williams

If you think I'm one of those people who try to be funny at breakfast you're wrong. I'm invariably ill-tempered in the early morning. — Daphne Du Maurier

Faith should be tempered with logic and reasoning. — J. Bartell

Orgasms are so much stronger when tempered in the flames of darkened desires and cooled in the waters of emotions. — Hedone

Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching. — Gilbert Highet

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. — William Ewart Gladstone

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams. — Thomas Carlyle

Our deepest (and fastest) yearnings can be tempered by reason and experience; our more prudent judgments softened by desire and need. — Kayt Sukel

My feet took an involuntary step backward as I suddenly envisioned a world where I wasn't a hot tempered smartass. It was a pretty world. — Jennifer R. McDonald

Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am. — C.S. Lewis

A hot-tempered person starts fights; a cool-tempered person stops them. - Proverbs 15:18 — Gary Chapman

Passion ought to be tempered with restraint. — Maya Rodale

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong. — Addison Mizner

You're far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You're far better suited as a wife. — Lisa Kleypas

I am even-tempered and emotionally well balanced — Louise Hay

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. — Voltaire

I know some people with such bad tempers that, even if they accidentally walked into a tree branch, they will chop the whole tree down. — Anthony Liccione

The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand. — Margaret Deland

a Libra. Balanced. Diplomatic. Even-tempered. — Leslye Walton

Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people. — Saadi

He's an even-tempered stallion. What he lacks in stamina he makes up for in speed, kind of like most of the men I've slept with. — Lila Shaw

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin. — Tacitus

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95) — Karen Armstrong

Words are healers of the sick tempered. — Aeschylus

And who can be ill natured and bad tempered when they encounter neither opposition nor indifference? — Emily Bronte

A theory must be tempered with reality. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Meghann knew however strong the evil inside Simon Baldevar was, it was tempered by the love he had for her and their children. — Trisha Baker

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge! — William Hague

You like sequences," Fuka-Eri asked, without a question mark. "To me, they're like Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. I never get tired of them. — Haruki Murakami

The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach. — Frank Herbert

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait. — Giovanni Ruffini

Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism. — Ayelet Waldman

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. — Blaise Pascal

Lazy people are some of the most exhausted, dissatisfied, and ill-tempered folks around because the joy-backed promises of laziness our lies. — Matt Chandler

She was god-awfully hideous. I swear she looked like a bad-tempered mutant tomato, and she was making a sound like a cat being fed into a printer — Sarah Rees Brennan

Her soft soul had crystallized. (Just as well, she thought.) She was a sword tempered in the fire. — Kate Atkinson

My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am. — Billy Corgan

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong. — David Letterman

there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn." I — Daniel Keyes