TEMPER in Classic Quotes

1  My temper I dare not vouch for.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11

2  My temper would perhaps be called resentful.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11

3  You do not make allowance enough for difference of situation and temper.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24

4  She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

5  As a child I was taught what was right, but I was not taught to correct my temper.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 58

6  His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 50

7  I have a warm, unguarded temper, and I may have spoken my opinion of him, and to him, too freely.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16

8  So near a vicinity to her mother and Meryton relations was not desirable even to his easy temper, or her affectionate heart.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 61

9  I am exceedingly gratified," said Bingley, "by your converting what my friend says into a compliment on the sweetness of my temper.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10

10  After a few minutes' reflection, however, she continued, "I do remember his boasting one day, at Netherfield, of the implacability of his resentments, of his having an unforgiving temper."

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16

11  She was not of so ungovernable a temper as Lydia; and, removed from the influence of Lydia's example, she became, by proper attention and management, less irritable, less ignorant, and less insipid.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 61

12  Bingley was endeared to Darcy by the easiness, openness, and ductility of his temper, though no disposition could offer a greater contrast to his own, and though with his own he never appeared dissatisfied.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

13  Jane's temper was not desponding, and she was gradually led to hope, though the diffidence of affection sometimes overcame the hope, that Bingley would return to Netherfield and answer every wish of her heart.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21

14  But I shall not scruple to assert, that the serenity of your sister's countenance and air was such as might have given the most acute observer a conviction that, however amiable her temper, her heart was not likely to be easily touched.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35

15  I am sure," she added, "if it was not for such good friends I do not know what would become of her, for she is very ill indeed, and suffers a vast deal, though with the greatest patience in the world, which is always the way with her, for she has, without exception, the sweetest temper I have ever met with.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9

16  Elizabeth listened in silence, but was not convinced; their behaviour at the assembly had not been calculated to please in general; and with more quickness of observation and less pliancy of temper than her sister, and with a judgement too unassailed by any attention to herself, she was very little disposed to approve them.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

17  Mr. Bingley intended it likewise, and sometimes made choice of his county; but as he was now provided with a good house and the liberty of a manor, it was doubtful to many of those who best knew the easiness of his temper, whether he might not spend the remainder of his days at Netherfield, and leave the next generation to purchase.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4