Anger Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

115 Anger Quotes
“When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes
Source: Satires (I, 4, 34)
“They are borne along by the violence of their rage, and think it is a waste of time to ask who are guilty. [Lat., Trahit ipse furoris Impetus, et visum est lenti quaesisse nocentum.]”
Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan) Quotes
Source: Pharsalia (II, 109)
“Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan) Quotes
Source: Pharsalia (II, 109)
“No man provokes me with impunity. [Lat., Nemo me impune lacessit.]”
Motto Quotes
Source: of the Order of the Thistle
“Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes
Source: Amorum (I, 7, 66)
“Like fragile ice anger passes away in time. [Lat., Ut fragilis glacies interit ira mora.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes
Source: Ara Amatoria (I, 374)
“Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can fear reproof who merit praise.”
Alexander Pope Quotes
Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 582)
“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.”
Jean Paul Richter Quotes
Source: Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces (ch. VI)
“Deaf rage that hears no leader. [Ger., Dem tauben Grimm, der keinen Fuhrer hort.]”
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Quotes
Source: Wallenstein's Tod (III, 20, 16)
“Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.”
Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes
“Anger doesn't win games”
Gary Beban Quotes
“Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.”
Sir Henry Bulwer Quotes
“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.”
Edward Hyde Clarendon Quotes
“Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their uncompromising opposition to oppression, and humor prevents them from being consumed by their fury.”
James H. Cone Quotes
“Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.”
George Crabbe Quotes
“Anger is one of the sinews of the Soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.”
Thomas Fuller Quotes
“Anger as soon as fed is dead — 'Tis starving makes it fat.”
Emily Dickinson Quotes
“Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.”
George William Curtis Quotes
“Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.”
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
“Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just, what it does cruelly.”
Saint Gregory I Quotes
“Anger is a short madness.”
Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace Quotes
“Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one.”
George Savile, Lord Halifax Quotes
“Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.”
Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes
“Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.”
Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes
“Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.”
David Oman McKay Quotes