Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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.
Anger is like
A full-hot horse; who being allowed his way,
Self-mettle tires him.
A man prone to anger stirs up strife; anyone disposed to rage commits many transgressions.
Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.
You husbands, keep on loving your wives and do not be bitterly angry with them.
From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.
If I had a thunderbolt in mine eye,
I can tell who should down.
Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself,
And so shall starve with feeding.
The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence.