"Self-control" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... on his heel. "What a fool I am! The law will take care of such scoundrels as you. What's the grand stand cheering for now?" he asked, looking across the field in an effort to regain his self-control. ...
— The Silent Bullet • Arthur B. Reeve
... with shame at his lack of self-control in flinging the news at her so brutally. His head reeled and he had to support himself against the table. All the while he felt as if he were still kissing her, and yet dying of thirst for ...
— Ethan Frome • Edith Wharton
... Her self-control seemed all at once to fail. She leaned her elbows on the table and broke into a flood of silent tears, with face ...
— The Convert • Elizabeth Robins
... feet. He set his teeth. For a single moment his own danger was forgotten. A feeling which he utterly failed to recognise robbed him of his indomitable nerve. He realised with vivid but scarcely displeasing potency a weakness in the armour of his complete self-control. ...
— The Black Box • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... "Yes, no doubt—if this wind holds and the fine weather lasts. But suppose that it doesn't, what then?" He pulled himself up short, panting and breathless with anger, got a pull upon himself, recovered his self-control, and then said, in a perfectly ...
— Turned Adrift • Harry Collingwood
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