Bad Tempered Quotes

“Her heavy peasant face was fringed by a bang of red hair like a woolen table-spread, a color at once strange and attractive, an obstinate color, a color that seemed to make Lena feel something alien and bad-tempered had settled over her forehead...”
― Djuna Barnes

“I want Alister's killer. I'm letting you work with me because you want to and because if I didn't, you'd just get in my way."
"You're 'letting' me work with you because you're too bad tempered to get information out of anybody on your own," she retorted. "I don't know why the lictors thought you might be useful to them. What do you do, stab prisoners with the sharp edge of your tongue until they beg for mercy?”
― Dru Pagliassotti, Clockwork Heart

“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

“Well, anyhow, he thought, the French say that bad temper and stubbornness make one live longer, so I may still be around for a while...”
― Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven