Anger Quotes

Quotes

In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
o Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, chapter 1. (Second novel of the The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series).

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
o Alfred Adler

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him. ·
o Akhenaton

Indulge not thyself in the passion of Anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
o Akhenaton

Iratus semplar plus putat posse facere quam possit.
o The angry man always thinks he can do more than he can.
o Albertano of Brescia, Liber Consolations

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
o William Rounseville Alger

Anyone can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not easy.
o Aristotle

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
o Francis Bacon, Apophthegms (1679)

Anger is like ruin,It breaks itself upon which it falls.
o Francis Bacon

Hatred is self-punishment.
o Hosea Ballou

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
o Honoré de Balzac

When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them; attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.
o Bhagavad Gita

I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.

William Blake

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
o H. G. Bohn

Your anger is a gift.
o Zack de la Rocha

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.
o H. Jackson Brown Jr

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
o Buddha

Dangers by being despised grow great.
o Edmund Burke, Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians, 1792

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
o Cato the Elder

Hatred is inveterate anger.
o Marcus Tullius Cicero

Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.
o Charles Caleb Colton

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
o Charles Caleb Colton

When anger rises, think of the consequences.
o Confucius

Heav’n has no rage, like love to hatred turn’d. / Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn’d.
o William Congreve, The Mourning Bride

For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love — this is an old rule.
o Dhammapada

He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins.
o Dhammapada

Beware the fury of a patient man.
o John Dryden

To rule one’s anger is well; to prevent it is still better.
o Tryon Edwards

Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.
o Dwight D. Eisenhower

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
o Epictetus

Remember to not only say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
o Benjamin Franklin

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
o Mahatma Gandhi

When a man is wrong and won’t admit it, he always gets angry.
o Haliburton

Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.
o Lord Halifax

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
o Horace

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
o Matthew Henry

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
o Robert Green Ingersoll

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
o Walter Savage Landor

From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
o Captain Ahab to Moby-Dick in Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
o Publilius Syrus

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
o Seneca

When angry count four; when very angry, swear.
o Mark Twain

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
o Daniel Webster

Anonymous

Anger does nobody good, but patience is the father of kindness

Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp’s nest.
o Malabar Proverb

Anger is a thief who steals away the nice moments

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
o Chinese proverb

My passions flare, I weep in sadness, wallow in despair, my passions change, anger reigns, now all lie in fear.