"Bad-tempered" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "I want to warn you that I am a bad-tempered man. You can write home if you like and tell them that you met me coming out of the German Embassy and the Russian Embassy and the Italian Embassy, with a list of prices in my hands for different pieces of information. Is that what ...
— The Mischief Maker • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... body of twenty and the sense of ten. I am putting it very badly, but—but I was hateful years ago too. I think one always is, perhaps. I remember at school there were self-righteous little girls; they were narrow and intolerant, easily shocked, and rather bad-tempered. The others were absurdly vain, sentimental, sly. All that comes away afterwards if one is ...
— Olive in Italy • Moray Dalton
... said Festing. "They have only a deaf tourist and two tired climbers, who seem sleepy and bad-tempered, at ...
— The Girl From Keller's - Sadie's Conquest • Harold Bindloss
... scream themselves hoarse. Of all the spoilt, bad-tempered little ruffians you ever encountered, they are the worst, and there is not a soul on board who can manage them except myself. Yesterday they got so cross that I was almost in despair, and it was only by pretending ...
— More About Peggy • Mrs G. de Horne Vaizey
... face was unusually sallow in tint, and there was a dark, upright line between his brows which his relations knew and—dreaded. The genial, sunshiny individual of a few evenings back had disappeared, and a decidedly bad-tempered young man now ...
— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
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