"Quick-tempered" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Quick-tempered, passionate, generous-hearted, and extremely impulsive, the emperor, often speaking on the spur of the moment, frequently said more than he intended to say, and thus laid himself open to both domestic and foreign criticism and abuse. He has not yet outgrown ...
— The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe: William II, Germany; Francis Joseph, Austria-Hungary, Volume I. (of 2) • Mme. La Marquise de Fontenoy
... Betty was passionate and quick-tempered, but she was generous and tender-hearted as well, and when she realized how unkind and cruel she kind been she felt very miserable. Her position admitted of no retreat. No matter how much pride rebelled; no matter how much she disliked to retract anything she had said, ...
— Betty Zane • Zane Grey
... seems to me to be very agreeable," continued the curate. "At first I misjudged him—he's a little quick-tempered—but he knows so well how to atone for his faults afterwards that one can't hold anything against him. If it were not ...
— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal
... Annalise, who was beginning to enjoy herself, went upstairs singing. In the parlour Priscilla broke the pen she had signed with into quite small pieces and flung them on to the fire,—a useless demonstration, but then she was a quick-tempered young lady. In the attic Annalise sat down and wrote a letter breathing lofty sentiments to the Countess Disthal in Kunitz, telling her she could no longer keep silence in the face of a royal parent's anxieties and she ...
— The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight • Elizabeth von Arnim
... for quick-tempered Nell. She had had some vague idea of forgiving him, after he had sued sufficiently for pardon; but now, forgetting her good intentions in the belief that he was making sport of her when he should have pleaded for forgiveness, ...
— The Spirit of the Border - A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley • Zane Grey
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