“It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.”
Source: The A.B.C. Murders
“Men are like steel — when they lose their temper, they lose their worth.”
Though often attributed to Norris, this seems to have appeared as an anonymous proverb at least as early as 1961, in an edition of The Physical Educator
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