Anger Sayings & Quotes
These anger sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.He subdues their rising passion and soothes their anger by soft remonstrance. - Virgil
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. - George Eliot
If anger be the basis of our political activities, the excitement tends to become an end in itself, at the expense of the object to be achieved, side issues then assume an exaggerated importance, and all gravity of thought and action is lost; such excitement is not an exercise of strength, but a display of weakness. - Sir Rabindranath Tagore
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men? [La., Quid est dementius quam bilem in homines collectam in res effundere.] - Seneca
Anger is a brief madness. - Horace
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. - Beverly Sills
Anger cannot be dishonest. - Marcus Aureleus
Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can fear reproof who merit praise. - Alexander Pope
Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. - Marcus Aureleus
Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did. - Christopher Darlington Morley
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. - Carl Sandburg
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time. [La., Ut fragilis glacies interit ira mora.] - Ovid
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. - Sir Francis Bacon
People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong. - Dr. Laura Schlessinger
We must control anger and hatred in ourselves. And as we learn to remain in peace, then we can demonstrate in society in a way that makes a real statement for world peace. If we ourselves remain always angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. So, you see, first our individual self must learn peace. This we can practice. Then we must teach the rest of the world. - Dalai Lama
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. - Epictetus
He who, before he leaves his body, learns to surmount the prompting's of desire and anger is a saint and is happy. - Bhagavad Gita
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. - J. R. R. Tolkien
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. - Confucius
Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one. - Lord Halifax
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind. - Thomas Fuller
What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery