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“Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.” Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break;” William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
“Hot anger was bad. Ender’s anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo’s was hot, and so it used him.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind, upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge.” John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.” Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
“I understand a fury in your words, but not the words.” William Shakespeare, Othello
“Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid.” Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
“don’t get afraid, get angry” Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
“We can shoot rockets into space but we can’t cure anger or discontent.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“Humor is almost always anger with its makeup on, I think, but in little towns the makeup tends to be thin.” Stephen King, Bag of Bones
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.” Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders
“He thinks every woman he meets is crazy for him, gets angry at little things, and blames other people when things go wrong.” Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One
“Reader, do you know, as I do, what terror those cold people can put into the ice of their questions? How much of the fall of the avalanche is in their anger? of the breaking up of the frozen sea in their displeasure?” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.” Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
“I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities, a thousand unremembered moments, produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that...” Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
“Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.” James Joyce, Dubliners
“my drops of tears I'll turn to sparks of fire.” William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
“men in rage strike those that wish them best” William Shakespeare, Othello
“If he didn’t care about you, you couldn’t upset him” Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.” William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
“That’s the way you feel when you’re beaten inside. You don’t feel angry at those who’ve beaten you. You just feel ashamed.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.” William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
“For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency.” Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
“You make it obvious you don't care whether people like you or not. That makes some people angry.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but that a fool does? Because a cripple recognises that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger. ” Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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