Anger Quotes

Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.

Edward G. Bulwer-Ly

Anger is one letter short of danger.

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.

Alexandre Dumas

I was angry with my friend
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
A Poison Tree.

William Blake

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Thomas a Kempis

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

James Thurber

My mother used to say, "He who angers you, conquers you!" But my mother was a saint.

Elizabeth Kenny

Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy.

Aristotle

Think when you are enraged at anyone, what would probably become of your sentiments should he die during the dispute.

William Shenstone

No man can think clearly when his fist are clenched.

George Jean Nathan

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Walter S. Landor

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Horace Walpole

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that lacks it has a maimed mind.

Thomas Fuller