332 Quotes Regarding Anger


He who angers you conquers you.
Elizabeth Kenny

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve

Beware of him that is slow to anger for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
Francis Quarles

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Plato

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George Eliot

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Epictetus

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Marcus Aurelius

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Francis Bacon

Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.
Alfred A. Montapert

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Laurence J. Peter

Anger is a short madness.
Horace

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Francis Bacon

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
Cato

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Sydney J. Harris