anger Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

115 anger Quotes
“When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear.”
Mark Twain Quotes
“A man is about as big as the things that make him angry”
Winston Churchill Quotes
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”
Dr. Laurence J. Peter Quotes
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
Buddha Quotes
“Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.”
Buddha Quotes
“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”
Albert Einstein Quotes
“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
“In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves”
Abraham J. Heschel Quotes
“When anger rises, think of the consequences”
Confucius Quotes
“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.”
Francis Bacon Quotes
Source: Certain Apophthegms of Lord Bacon (no. IV)
“Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Ephesians (ch. IV, v. 26-27)
“He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Proverbs (ch. XVI, v. 32)
“I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath die end. I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow.”
William Blake Quotes
Source: Christian Forbearance
“Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.”
Robert Burns Quotes
Source: Tam o'Shanter (l. 12)
“Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny, and youth is vain; And to be wrothe with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
Source: Christabel (pt. II)
“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
John Dryden Quotes
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 1005)
“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”
John Dryden Quotes
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 1005)
“A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.”
George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Quotes
Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I)
“Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.”
George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Quotes
Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I)
“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”
George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Quotes
Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I)
“Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.”
Thomas Fuller Quotes
Source: Holy and Profane States--Anger
“Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes
Source: The Iliad (XVIII, 108)
“Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. [Lat., Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes
Source: Epistles (I, 2, 62)
“He has hay on his horns. [Lat., Foenum habet in cornu.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes
Source: Satires (I, 4, 34)