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 a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.
Spite is anger which is afraid to show itself, it is an impotent fury conscious of its impotence.
When a lady condescends to apologize, there is no keeping one’s anger.
Anger [is], according to some, a transient hatred, or at least very like it.
Bolshevism — what fear and anger the word arouses in the minds of the rulers of society!
Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise,
The man who lets the contest fall is wise.
Anger is never without an Argument, but seldom with a good one.
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.