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Anger Quotes

Shakespeare leads, ahead of Audre Lorde, Seneca, the fantasy novelist Sheri S. Tepper and Marcus Aurelius. Blake’s four-line poem from Songs of Experience (1794) is the one that holds up best, about telling a friend your wrath and ending it, and not telling a foe and letting it grow. Congreve’s The Mourning Bride (1697) is the source of the line about Hell having no fury like a woman scorned, and it says a little more than the shortened version. Henry Ward Beecher, in 1858, advised never forgetting what a man has said to you when he was angry.

Flagged: “To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth,” credited to Theodore Roosevelt and marked misattributed; Publilius Syrus on the anger of lovers and a Dryden couplet about Shadwell, both disputed.

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Without a recovery process, it is easy to slide into toxic anger, despair, cynicism, and more.

Rita Nakashima Brock

The one who is slow to anger has great discernment, but the impatient one displays his foolishness.

Solomon

If we say that I only get at the symptoms of his anger, that carries an important implication. But is this the way we do talk?

J. L. Austin Philosophical Papers (1979)

The deathless gods are near among men and mark all those who oppress their fellows with crooked judgements, and reck not the anger of the gods.

Hesiod Works and Days (-700)

But Hildy was no longer afraid. She had reached the point where fear can no longer help, and anger offers the only hope of survival.

Tom Holt Who's Afraid of Beowulf? (1988)

I should have felt pity, but I felt only contempt. I knew had it been a girl she would have mourned less, and it angered me.

Tanith Lee The Birthgrave (1975)

Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our Cushion.

William Makepeace Thackeray Roundabout Papers (1863)

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Matthew Henry The Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. Matthew Henry (1830)

The wise will make their anger cool
At least before 'tis night.

Isaac Watts Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)

I love May's first storms:
chuckling, sporting spring
grumbles in mock anger;
young thunder claps.

Fyodor Tyutchev

Said I, in scorn all burning hot,
In rage and anger high,
"You ignominious idiot,
Those wings are made to fly!"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman In this Our World : Poems (1898)

Non-Muslim working-class communities do not have a voice. It's not going to end pretty. There is a massive undercurrent of anger across this country.

Tommy Robinson

“You gotta watch that anger. The customer’s always right,” said Merk.
“The customer’s hardly ever right,” said Slackwell.

Jeffrey Ford The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories (2002)

But still anger ought be far from us, for nothing is able to be done rightly nor judiciously with anger.

Cicero De Officiis – On Duties (-44)

Every innocent death helps the terrorists' cause by stirring anger against America and bringing them potential recruits.

George Soros Why We Must Not Reelect President Bush (2004)

We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things?

George Lakoff

It becomes all men, Senators, who deliberate on dubious matters, to be influenced neither by hatred, affection, anger, nor pity.

Sallust Bellum Catilinae (-44)

The whole world would have been destroyed if compassion did not put an end to anger.

Seneca the Elder

And amidst the pain and anger, don’t lose sight of what you are grateful for and the recognition that everything is a gift.

Cherry Pie Picache

Delay is the greatest remedy for anger.

Seneca the Younger

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