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.
How much more damage anger and grief do than the things that cause them. (Hays translation)
Pain is the opposite of strength, and so is anger. (Hays translation)
A moment of patience in the moment of anger prevents thousands of moments of regret.
What a mistake rage is ! anger should never go beyond a sneer, if it really desires revenge.
We can shoot rockets into space but we can’t cure anger or discontent.