Angry Man Quotes

• Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Kindness, Liars

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

  Cato the Elder

  Educational, Anger, Eye

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

  Elizabeth I

  Motivational, Witty, Anger

  To Sir Edward Dyer, in T. Tenison (ed.) 'Baconiana' (1679) Apophthegm 5

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

  Winston Churchill

  Wise, Anger, Character

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• Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

  Pietro Aretino

  Anger, Pride, Men

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• Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Men, Littles, Rage

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.228, Macmillan

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• Don't let the sun go down on me.

  Elton John

  Forgiveness, Anger, Rejection

  Song: Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me, 1974

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• It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first

  Reginald Rose

  Boys, Hands, Talking

  Reginald Rose (2006). “Twelve Angry Men”, p.19, Penguin

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• The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

  Aristotle

  Men, Hatred, Suffering

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• The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged, they flail around, accusing those who would impede them of communism, fascism, religiosity, misanthropy, but knowing at heart that these restrictions are driven by something far more repulsive to the unrestrained man: the decencies we owe to other human beings.

  George Monbiot

  Hate, Heart, Men

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• Here’s a question every angry man and woman needs to consider: How long are you going to allow people you don’t even like — people who are no longer in your life, maybe even people who aren’t even alive anymore — to control your life? How long?

  Andy Stanley

  Men, Long, People

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• Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

  Plutarch

  Anger, Men, Owl

  Plutarch (1704). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.56

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• An angry man is full of poison.

  Confucius

  Anger, Men, Poison

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• Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Bed, Nettles

  Samuel Richardson (1862). “Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprenhending the Most ...”, p.197

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• An angry man is always a stupid man.

  Chinua Achebe

  Stupid, Anger, Men

  Chinua Achebe (1988). “Anthills of the Savannah”, p.27, Heinemann

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• I used to be an angry man myself. I’m a recovering assaholic so I could recognize that in Steve. (quoting Jean-Louis Gassée)

  Walter Isaacson

  Men, Used, Quoting

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• Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.

  Gertrude Stein

  Father, Men, Tree

  Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.32, Northwestern University Press

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• Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me different.

  Sherwood Smith

  Men, Cities, Different

  Sherwood Smith (2009). “King's Shield: Book Three of Inda”, p.432, Penguin

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• I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Music, Hate

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.117, Ballantine Books

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• Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

  David Lloyd George

  Men, Blood, Rage

  David Lloyd George “War Memoirs of David Lloyd George: 1917-1918”

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• My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?

  Margaret Smith

  Funny, Death, Witty

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• I think Rafael Benítez was an angry man. He must have been disturbed for some reason. I think you have got to cut through the venom of it and hopefully he'll reflect and understand what he said was absolutely ridiculous.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Cutting, Men

  "Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.

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• The proud man hath no God; the envious
  man hath no neighbor; the angry man
  hath not himself.

  Joseph Hall

  Anger, Men, Proud

  Joseph Hall (1860). “Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments”, p.18

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• My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his club at me. Well, let him wave-the sky is blue; Go on, old ball, we are but two-We may be down in three, Or nine-or ten-or twenty-five-It matters not; to be alive, Is good enough for me.

  A. P. Herbert

  Golf, Men, Blue

  A.P. Herbert (2014). “Mild And Bitter”, p.20, House of Stratus

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• An angry man can only get so far until he reconciles the way he thinks.

  Don Henley

  Men, Thinking, Way

  Song: My Thanksgiving

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