“For a morning's anger to disregard one's own life, and involve that of his parents - is not this a case of delusion?”
Confucius
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Anger Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · ANGER
Anger Quotes
Read 200 of the best anger quotes on controlling your temper, staying calm and letting go, from Seneca, Buddha, Marcus Aurelius, Shakespeare and more.
“Recompense injury with kindness.”
Lao Tzu
KindnessForgiveness
“O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper: I would not be mad!”
William Shakespeare
TemperSelf-Control
“O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason.”
William Shakespeare
ReasonMadness
“In a false quarrel there is no true valour.”
William Shakespeare
ArgumentsCourage
“Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.”
William Shakespeare
ArgumentsAdvice
“Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core.”
William Shakespeare
Self-ControlRespect
“Wrath-kindled gentlemen, be ruled by me; let's purge this choler without letting blood.”
William Shakespeare
PeaceConflict
“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor Hell a fury like a woman scorned.”
William Congreve
LoveRage
“To err is human, to forgive divine.”
Alexander Pope
ForgivenessMistakes
“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
John Dryden
PatienceWarning
“There is no passion that so much transports the sincerity of judgment as anger.”
Michel de Montaigne
JudgmentReason
“Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.”
Robert Burns
ResentmentGrudges
“Anger and folly walk cheek by jowl; repentance treads on both their heels.”
Benjamin Franklin
RegretFolly
“Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.”
Benjamin Franklin
CreativityConsequences
“In the case of anger, remember that to be moved by passion is not manly, but that mildness and gentleness, as they are more agreeable to human nature, so also are they more manly.”
Marcus Aurelius
GentlenessStrength
“When you have been angry, you must know that not only has this evil befallen you, but that you have also increased the habit.”
Epictetus
HabitsSelf-Control
“This emotion is the most hideous and frenzied of them all.”
Seneca
AngerMadness
“Rule your mind, which, unless it obeys, commands.”
Horace
MindSelf-Control
“An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.”
Cato the Elder
ReasonWords
“All is not lost; the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate.”
John Milton
RevengeHatred
“The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.”
Aesop
InjusticePower
“Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.”
Aesop
KarmaConsequences
“Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.”
Thomas Fuller
SoulPassion
“He that is angry without a cause, shall be pleased without amends.”
Thomas Fuller
WisdomAnger