Thomas Chandler Haliburton Quotes

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong.

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

I don't like to be proved wrong.

I think that sometimes people [who overreact or lash out] will hang on to their point just because they're so embarrassed that they made it. They won't set it down because they are the authors of these [disproportionate responses] and they have a lot to be embarrassed about.

An argument would have begun to steam and boil and sputter - and you know how arguments end. Even if I had convinced him that he was wrong, his pride would have made it difficult for him to back down and give in.

And Flock Rule Number Two is, Don't argue with Max or you'll live to regret it." I spun and stomped out to the clearing, turning back for one last jab at Dylan. "And by the way, you clearly DON'T know me better than Fang does. Do you see Fang arguing with me? No, you do not." Fang rolled his eyes.

I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.

Okay, well, I guess I'm still a kid. Because when I get really angry and fired up and I feel like my back is up against the wall, I will say vicious things.

I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

I don't disagree with anything I've ever said. Why in God's name would I disagree with something I've said?

Robin had always wanted to go solo, so when it happened I wasn't angry at all. I understood the situation. But Barry is so full of pride and couldn't understand why Robin had done it.

I am... stubborn, and I admit it, so it's OK.

Most of the people of this world are coated round and round with self-esteem, and they're afraid to admit any understanding of the things which aren't good.

How many crimes committed merely because their authors could not endure being wrong.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

I know there's an impression that I'm someone who seeks to have violent confrontations with people. I don't. Do I regret screaming at some guy who practically clipped my kid in the head with the lens of a camera? Yeah, I probably do, because it's only caused me problems.

Sometimes there's just no room for apologies.