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.
Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.
Being once chaf'd, he cannot
Be rein'd again to temperance; then he speaks
What's in his heart.
Fear not the anger of the wise to raise;
Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.