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.
Where do I keep my feelings. Of ferocious anger. While I make all my pleasant replies.
Anger, when it is long in coming, is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept.
Anger and desire of vengeance are not going to be of much help to you in your administration.
The man needs to learn how to controll his anger, he is crossing a border here, and he has no right
The anger of imbeciles is less frightening than their benevolence.
Passion looks like anger to people who aren’t passionate about anything.