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William Shakespeare on Anger

1564–1616 England

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A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.

Come not within the measure of my wrath.

Being once chaf'd, he cannot
Be rein'd again to temperance; then he speaks
What's in his heart.

Never anger made good guard for itself.

Anger is like
A full-hot horse; who being allowed his way,
Self-mettle tires him.

Henry VIII (1613)

O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful
In the contempt and anger of his lip!

The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree: such a hare is madness the youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel, the cripple.

Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself,
And so shall starve with feeding.

If I had a thunderbolt in mine eye,
I can tell who should down.

You are yoked with a lamb,
That carries anger as the flint bears fire;
Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark.
And straight is cold again.

Julius Cæsar (1599)

It engenders choler, planteth anger;
And better 'twere that both of us did fast,
Since, of ourselves, ourselves are choleric,
Than feed it with such over-roasted flesh.

Touch me with noble anger!
And let not women's weapons, water drops,
Stain my man's cheeks.

King Lear (1608)

What sudden anger's this? How have I reap'd it?
He parted frowning from me, as if ruin
Leap'd from his eyes: So looks the chafed lion
Upon the daring huntsman that has gall'd him;
Then makes him nothing.

Henry VIII (1613)

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