Quotes about Anger
Now just vengeance is taken only for that which is done unjustly; hence that which provokes anger is always something considered in the light of an injustice.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
When I heard you cry I followed you, and saw you put down your handkerchief, screwed up, with its rage, with its hate, knotted in it.
— Virginia Woolf
Rich people, for example, are often angry because they suspect that the poor want to seize their wealth.
— Virginia Woolf
Never will I wake those echoes, never will I ask for that hospitality again, I vowed as I descended the steps in anger. Still an hour remained before luncheon, and what was one to do?
— Virginia Woolf
And thinking of the safety and prosperity of the one sex and the poverty and insecurity of the other and of the effect of tradition and the lack of tradition upon the mind of a writer, I thought at last that it was time to roll up the crumpled skin of the day, with its arguments and its impressions and its anger and its laughter, and cast it into the hedge.
— Virginia Woolf
That man, she thought, her anger rising in her, never gave; that man took.
— Virginia Woolf
He takes out his anger by having his carriage speed through the streets, scattering the commoners in the way.
— Charles Dickens
May the Devil carry away these idiots!
— Charles Dickens
This will soon be over now, dear Mr Clennam. Not only are Mr Doyce's letters to you so full of friendship and encouragement, but Mr Rugg says his letters to him are so full of help, and that everybody (now a little anger is past) is so considerate, and speaks so well of you, that it will soon be over now.' 'Dear girl. Dear heart. Good angel!
— Charles Dickens
But it's wonderful,' said Mr. Giles, when he had explained, 'what a man will do, when his blood is up. I should have committed murder—I know I should—if we'd caught one of them rascals.
— Charles Dickens
Once out of this court, I'll smash that face of yourn!
— Charles Dickens