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Anger: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
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.— WM. BLAKE — Christian Forbearance.
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.— BURNS — Tam o' Shanter. L. 12.
Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny, and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.— COLERIDGE — Christabel. Pt. II.
Fill'd with fury, rapt, inspired.— WILLIAM COLLINS — The Passions. L. 10.
Beware the fury of a patient man.— DRYDEN — Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. I. L. 1002.
A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain What, drunk with choler? To feel much anger.— GEORGE ELIOT — Spanish Gypsy. Bk. I.
Anger seeks its prey, - Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Likes not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.— GEORGE ELIOT — Spanish Gypsy. Bk. I.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.— FULLER — The Holy and Profane States.
Anger. Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart: grief, two tear-glands; and pride, two bent knees.— RICHTER — Flower, Fruit and Thorn Pieces. Ch. VI.
No pale gradations quench his ray, No twilight dews his wrath allay. Scott-Rokeby. Canto VI. St. 21. Anger is like A full-hot horse; who being allowed his way, Self-mettle tires him.— Shakespeare — Henry VIII. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 132.
Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself, And so shall starve with feeding.— Shakespeare — Coriolanus. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 50.
Being once chaf'd, he cannot Be rein'd again to temperance; then he speaks What's in his heart.— Shakespeare — Coriolanus. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 27.
Come not within the measure of my wrath.— Shakespeare — Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act V. Sc. 4. L. 127.
If I had a thunderbolt in mine eye, I can tell who should down. S.— Shakespeare — As You Like It. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 226.
It engenders choler, planteth anger; And better 'twere that both of us did fast, Since, of ourselves, ourselves are choleric, Than feed it with such over-roasted flesh.— Shakespeare — Taming of the Shrew. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 175.
Never anger made good guard for itself.— Shakespeare — Antony and Cleopatra. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 9.
Touch me with noble anger! And let not women's weapons, water drops, Stain my man's cheeks.— Shakespeare — King Lear. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 279. Henry IV. Pt. I. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 129.
What sudden anger's this? How have I reap'd it? He parted frowning from me, as if ruin Leap'd from his eyes: So looks the chafed lion Upon the daring huntsman that has gall'd him; Then makes him nothing.— Shakespeare — Henry VIII. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 204.
You are yoked with a lamb, That carries anger as the flint bears fire; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, And straight is cold again. Julius Cæsar. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 109. Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.— SWIFT — Letter to Bolingbroke, March 21,
1729. Senseless, and deformed, Convulsive Anger storms at large; or pale, And silent, settles into fell revenge.— THOMSON — The Seasons. Spring. L. 28.
Majorum gloria posteris lumen est, neque bona neque mala in occulto patitur. The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither their good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.— SALLUST — Jugurtha. LXXXV.
Qui genus jactat suum Aliena laudat. He who boasts of his descent, praises the deeds of another.— SENECA — Hercules Furens. CCCXL.
Ira est libido puniendi ėjus, qui videatur læsisse injuria. Anger is the desire of punishing the man who seems to have injured you.— CICERO — Tusculanarum Disputationum.
IV. 9. Fænum habet in cornu. He has hay on his horns.— HORACE — Satiræ. I. 4. 34.
Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat. Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.— HORACE — Epistolæ. I. 2. 62.
Trahit ipse furoris Impetus, et visum est lenti quæsisse nocentem. They are borne along by the violence of their rage, and think it is a waste of time to ask who are guilty.— LUCAN — Pharsalia. II. 109.
Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus. Anger assists hands however weak.— OVID — Amorum. I. 7. 66.
Ut fragilis glacies interit ira morâ. Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.— OVID — Ars Amatoria. I. 374.
Quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor. Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance.— SENECA — Hippolytus. CCCLXIII.
Ne frena animo permitte calenti; Da spatium, tenuemque moram; male cuncta ministrat Impetus. Give not reins to your inflamed passions; take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.— STATIUS — Thebais. X. 703.
S. Furor arma ministrat. Their rage supplies them with weapons.— VIRGIL — Eneid. I. 150.
Tantæne animis cœlestibus iræ. Can heavenly minds such anger entertain?— VIRGIL — Eneid. I. 11.