#Anger Quotes

“Away, you cut-purse rascal! you filthy bung, away! By this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps, an you play the saucy cuttle with me. Away, you bottle-ale rascal! you basket-hilt stale juggler, you!”

“Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first: anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England Can advise me like you: be to yourself As you would to your friend.”

“Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. *all cheer for Shakespearean insults*”

“You are yoked with a lamb,That carries anger as the flint bears fire;Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spank,And straight is cold again.”

“The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.”

“O gentle son, Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, sprinkle cool patience.”

“If I be waspish, best beware my sting.”

“Do not plunge thyself too far in anger.”

“If it be you that stirs these daughters' heartsAgainst their father, fool me not so muchTo bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,And let not women's weapons, water drops,Stain my man's cheeks.”

“Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods,Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hearOf this vile politician, Bolingbroke.”

“A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.”

“Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.”

“I had rather chop this hand off at a blow,And with the other fling it at thy face.”

“My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!”

“I will speak daggers to her, but use none.”

“To be in anger is impiety, but who is man that is not angry?”

“Anger's my meat. I sup upon myself,And so shall starve with feeding.”

“Go hang yourself, you naughty mocking uncle!”

“Away! Thou'rt poison to my blood.”

“O braggart vile and damned furious wight!”

“Men in rage strike those that wish them best.”

“I can hardly forbear hurling things at him.”

“To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.)”

“You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.”

“You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses of unburied men That do corrupt my air, I banish you; And here remain with your uncertainty!”

“A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.”

“If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her, she would infect to the north star!”

“Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time.”

“A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!”

“The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you.”

“When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.”

“Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow,Ang'ring itself and others.”

“When your love contracts in anger, the atmosphere itself feels threatening. But when you’re expansive, no matter what the weather, you’re in an open, windy field with friends.”

“A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.”

“Show me anger and I will show you 'Hurt'. Show me hurt and I will show you 'Love'. Peel the layers if you care!”

“Never anger made good guard for itself.”

“What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.”

“By all means give vent to your anger, let it out in nondestructive ways--if you are still deciding to have it. But begin to think of yourself as someone who can learn to think new thoughts when you are frustrated, so that the immobilizing anger can be replaced by more fulfilling emotions. Annoyance, irritation, and disappointment are feelings that you will very likely continue to experience, since the world will never be the way you want it. But anger, that hurtful emotional response to obstacles, can be eliminated.”

“The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.”

“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”

“Anger is likeA full hot horse, who being allowed his way,Self-mettle tires him.”

“Come not between the dragon and his wrath.”

“There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.”

“Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste.”

“Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.”

“Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.”

“Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.”

“Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.”

“Anger is a choice, as well as a habit. It is a learned reaction to frustration, in which you behave in ways that you would rather not. In fact, severe anger is a form of insanity. You are insane whenever you are not in control of your behavior. Therefore, when you are angry and out of control, you are temporarily insane.”

“Marianne Williamson has written that there are really only two primary emotions in the universe, love and fear. So anytime you're feeling anxious, insecure, worried, angry or resentful, you've left love and entered fear.”