Anger Quotes - Page 19

• Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrong which has been done by him.

  Richard Whately

  Grieving, Done, Made

  Richard Whately (1858). “Bacon's Essays”, p.563

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• move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.

  Amelia Barr

  Moving, Sea, Tempest

  Amelia E. Barr (2017). “The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to "The Bow of Orange Ribbon." A Love Story”, p.57, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

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• He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Degrees, Doe, Shrews

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1738). “Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections”, p.455

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• Don't just get mad, try a little creative revenge ... Creative revenge ... allows you to get even - to extract some satisfactory justice - when you are wronged, but lets you do it with a sense of humor, not boiling malice.

  Sonia Friedman

  Revenge, Justice, Mad

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• Check and restrain anger. Never make any determination until you find it has entirely subsided.

  Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

  Determination, Checks

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• Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a water mill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed into good.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Water, Benefits, Mills

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• Hate is your enemy; you must defeat it! Anger is your enemy; you must defeat it! Violence is your enemy; you must defeat it! Death is your enemy; you must defeat it! Know well your real enemies!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Hate, Real, Enemy

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• Mangling my racket and an odd swearword on the court is not something I am proud of and it shouldn't happen, but even my coaches have told me that it's sometimes better to let it all out, the anger inside you, because keeping it bottled would just eat you up in the long term.

  Novak Djokovic

  Long, Proud, Sometimes

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• Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.

  Saadi

  Kindness, People, Doe

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• Conservatives are driven and inspired by principles, not personalities. We therefore seek consistency with our elected officials. To the extent that they are not consistent, anger is the inevitable result. So yes, many will be angry.

  Chris McDaniel

  Personality, Consistency, Principles

  "Scalise brings back Boehner's familiar right flank hangover" by Alexandra Jaffe, www.cnn.com. December 31, 2014.

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• And she has a thousand virtues and not one acknowledged sin, But she is the sort of person you could liken to a pin. And she pricks you, and she sticks you, in a way that can't be said, When you seek for what has hurt you, why, you cannot find the head.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Hurt, Way, Sticks

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.614, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Fire, Devil, Might

  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

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• The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your workshop, No hand can paint, you know.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Hands, Sorrow, Want

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.250, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Be careful what rubbish you toss in the tide. On outgoing billows it drifts from your sight, But back on the incoming waves it may ride And land at your threshold again before night. Be careful what rubbish you toss in the tide.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Night, Sight, Land

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.969, Delphi Classics

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• Beshrew the heart that makes my heart to groan.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, My Heart

  William Shakespeare, “Sonnet CXXXIii”

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• Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.

  Jonathan Swift

  Sex, Delight, Ease

  Jonathan Swift (1803). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ... : with Notes, Historical and Critical”, p.187

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• Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Moral, Dies

  'Die Dreigroschenoper' (1928) act 2, sc. 3

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• I'm tired of the 'can't win against evil' way. I'm sorry, you cannot. They'll run you over. So that is my one big passion. 'Ten Stupid Things People Do to Let Evil Win' - that will be my next passion book. I am angry.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Running, Sorry, Stupid

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• Thank Fate for foes! I hold mine dear As valued friends. He cannot know The zest of life who runneth here His earthly race without a foe.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Fate, Race, Zest

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1488, Delphi Classics

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• 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, Speak, Adam

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

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• '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

  Feelings, Pleasure, Lost

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

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• A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Evil, Doe

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Heart, Imagination, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.9, Heron Dance Press

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• One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

  Alvin Toffler

  Real, Society, Needs

  "Diving Into the Bitstream: Information Technology Meets Society in a Digital World". Book by M. Barry Dumas, p. 231, 2012.

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• I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

  Pete Townshend

  Proportion, Blur, Blanket

  "Won't get fooled again..." by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2003.

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