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.
The embarrassment after the anger is biggest humiliation a person can experience.
But truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love.
No one can truthfully boast or say in anger: I cannot be unhappier than I am.
Anger and desire are twin sisters in this drama we call love, two kernels in the same nut!
Do not do to others that which angers you when they do it to you.