William Shakespeare Quotes About Anger

• Men in rage strike those that wish them best.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Men, Wish

  William Shakespeare (2004). “The Tragedy of Othello, Moor of Venice (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.37, Sparklesoup LLC

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

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Anger, Heart

  William Shakespeare, Brian Morris (1981). “The Taming of the Shrew: Second Series”, p.123, Cengage Learning EMEA

• Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Anger, Enemy

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 1, sc. 1, l. 140

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

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Meat, Eating

  1608 Volumnia. Coriolanus, act 4, sc.2, l.53-4.

• Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er, In seeming to augment it wastes it?

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Anger, Fire

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1716, BookCaps Study Guides

• Beshrew the heart that makes my heart to groan.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Heart, My Heart

  William Shakespeare, “Sonnet CXXXIii”

• She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star. I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all that Adam bad left him before he transgressed.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Anger, Speak

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [257]

• 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, When not to be, receives reproach of being, And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed, Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Feelings, Pleasure

  William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra. Cynbeline. Pericles. Poems”, p.612

• If there be devils, would I were a devil, To live and burn in everlasting fire, So I might have your company in hell, But to torment you with my bitter tongue!

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Fire, Devil

  William Shakespeare (1826). “The Plays of William Shakspeare Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies, Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. and Edmond Malone, Esq”, p.671

• Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Art, Pain

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Sonnets”, p.140, Pushkin Press

• I understand a fury in your words But not your words.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Desdemona, Fury

  William Shakespeare (1757). “The Works: Of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes. Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected: with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical: by Mr. Theobald”, p.314

• Never anger made good guard for itself.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Made

  1606 Maecenas. Antony and Cleopatra, act 4, sc.1, l.9-10.

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

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Men, Angry

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough (1790). “An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words Made Use of by Shakspeare; Calculated to Point Out the Different Meanings to which the Words are Applied. By the Rev. Samuel Auscough ..”, p.1101

• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Fire, Lambs

  William Shakespeare (1865). “Tragedies”

• Anger is like
  A full hot horse, who being allowed his way,
  Self-mettle tires him.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Anger, Self

  William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Gordon McMullan (2000). “King Henry VIII: Third Series”, p.223, Cengage Learning EMEA

• The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Blood, Law

  1596-7 Portia.TheMerchant ofVenice, act1, sc.2, l.17-18.

• If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts
  Against their father, fool me not so much
  To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,
  And let not women's weapons, water drops,
  Stain my man's cheeks.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Father, Anger

  William Shakespeare (2009). “King Lear”, p.74, Palgrave Macmillan

• Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great. Oh! I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Fighting, Rocks

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.643, BookCaps Study Guides

• A turn or two I'll walk
  To still my beating mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Passion, Exercise

  William Shakespeare (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v.4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v.5 King John. King Richrd II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v.6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v.7 King Richard”

• Do not plunge thyself too far in anger.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Plunge, Thyself

  William Shakespeare (1767). “The Works of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes”, p.41

• Have you not love enough to bear with me, when that rash humor which my mother gave me makes me forgetful.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Anger, Bears

  William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best Authorities : with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius”, p.500

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