"Self-control" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the man, now becoming exasperated, and for the moment so losing his self-control as to make wretched use of his facts, "she is erecting an altar in Holy Saints as ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking
... arose in his mind a mental picture of a man swinging in an underground kitchen, and in spite of his self-control he shuddered. ...
— Jack O' Judgment • Edgar Wallace
... worries about anything, so it's no virtue at all!" snarled Gwen, knowing perfectly well that she was unfair, for Lesbia undoubtedly added self-control to her naturally sweet disposition. "You always hold up Lesbia! You've no right to say we must stop at home, just because ...
— The Youngest Girl in the Fifth - A School Story • Angela Brazil
... there were anything to forgive," Anthony answered. And it must have taken pretty well all his immense self-control to go on speaking to the girl in French—an alien ...
— It Happened in Egypt • C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson
... remember with what a lack of self-control and reserve she had borne herself, she reflected. "But one more word of this sort," Susan resolved, "and I will simply go back to Auntie ...
— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris
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