Angry quotes

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

Francis Bacon

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.

Phyllis Diller

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

George Orwell

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

Great anger is more destructive than the sword.

Indian Proverb

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Frank Herbert

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but harsh words stir up anger.

Bible Proverbs

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

B. C. Forbes

I don't get angry and I don't hate people. If something bad happens, I forget it right away, or at least ten minutes later.

George Burns

There are three times when you should never say anything important to a person. When he is tired, when he is angry, and when he has just made a mistake.

Anonymous

Keep away from angry, short tempered men, lest you learn to be like them and endanger your soul.

Bible Proverbs

He who angers you conquers you.

Elizabeth Kenny

It's never what people do that make us angry, it's what we tell ourselves about what they did.

Marshall Rosenberg

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Alexandre Dumas - son

When someone throws dirt at you, remember, all they are doing is losing ground.

Chinese Proverb

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

Will Rogers

Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way, that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Anger is a destructive emotion which is based on arrogance. This is why one must find the cause and counteract it.

Dalai Lama

The strong man is not the good wrestler, the strong man is only the one who controls himself when he is angry.

Muhammad Ali

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Chinese Proverb

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

George Jean Nathan

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

Winston Churchill

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

Marcus Aurelius

Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up. Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

Henry Ward Beecher

Whatever has begun in anger ends in shame.

Benjamin Franklin

We boil at different degrees.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Maya Angelou