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
When I lose my temper it’s because I decide to. If I do something it’s because I want to do it. – Mario Balotelli
We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself. – Samuel Butler
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy – but he who has shown the better temper. – Samuel Butler
As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don’t think I had that when I was a kid. – Will Oldham
My temper is of a recluse and contemplative cast; had it been otherwise, I should, perhaps, on some former occasions, have entered into the active concerns of the world and not have been connected with it merely as a writer of books. – William Godwin
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
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. – Thomas Paine
