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Why such great anger in those heavenly minds? Virgil, Aeneid
I don’t know who I’m angry with; I’m just angry. The Sopranos s2e6: The Happy Wanderers, starring James Gandolfini & Lorriane Bracco & Edie Falco & Michael Imperioli & Dominic Chianese & Steven van Zandt & Tony Sirico & Robert Iler et al, Tony
A lot of anger is self-importance. The Sopranos s5e10: Cold Cuts, Janice to Tony
Why am I so fucking angry? ’Cause I can't get that loving feeling no more. ’Cause the greedy bastard dealers won’t give me the pills to get the job done. Times change. Music changes. Drugs change. Summer of ’88: you ain’t never gonna get that again, mate. Bonded by Blood 2010 starring Tamer Hassan & Robert Fucilla & Vincent Regan & Terry Stone & Adam Deacon & Neil Maskell & Dave Legano & Johnny Palmiero & Duncan Meadows et al, director Sacha Bennett, Craig in car
I believe I am beginning to experience anger. Star Trek: Voyager s4e17: Retrospect, Seven of Nine
Palace officials were so concerned about the fits of rage that in 1947 they consulted the royal doctor. He advised that nothing could be done. Reputations: George VI: The Reluctant King, BBC 199
Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government. Terry Pratchett
Hello, Angry of Mayfair here. Now look. This programme is in the worst possible taste. Before I’m finished they ought to take the rubbish off. Kenny Everett, The Kenny Everett Video Show
I can’t express anger. I grow a tumor instead. Woody Allen, Manhattan 1979 starring Woody Allen & Diane Keaton & Michael Murphy & Mariel Hemingway & Meryl Streep & Anne Byrne & Wallace Shawn & Karen Ludwig et al, director
Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. Aristotle
Angry will make you lose your head and not thinking right. It’s bad to be angry. It is best to go in cool and calm and take your time. Muhammad Ali, interview David Frost, The Then and Now of Muhammad Ali
When I am provoked I take a lot of un-provoking. Tony Hancock, The Emigrant 1961
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world. Mahatma Gandhi
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. Mahatma Gandhi
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
Venting anger just makes things worse. Professor Brad Bushman, University of Michigan
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Anger management by far is the most important movement in American psychology. Dr Leonard Ingram, Anger Management Specialist
Anger is an emotional response to our perception to some kind of a threat to our sense of well-being. Dr Leonard Ingram
I am angry nearly every day of my life. Louisa May Alcott, 1832-1888
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul. Thomas Fuller
Look Back in Anger. John Osborne, title of play 1956
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one. George Savile, 1633-95, Political, Moral and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections, 1750
Anger is a short madness. Horace, Epistles
It turns out anger management is bullshit. Penn & Teller: Bullshit! s5e10: Anger Management, Showtime 2007
Paul was ordered by a judge to take anger management classes. ibid.
When Elvis got really pissed off he shot his TV. ibid.
Domestic Violence specialists don’t recommend anger management as a therapy. ibid.
Sometimes a person’s anger is a symptom of something else. ibid.
We don’t even know if anger management works. ibid.
And Leonard will also teach you to be an anger management counsellor in just two days for six hundred bucks. ibid.
O! when she’s angry she is keen and shrewd. William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream III ii 323
But who is man that is not angry? William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens III vi 57, Alcibiades
Modern life is full of frustration, and most of us don’t seem to be able to respond very philosophically to it. We’re prone to losing our tempers ... Ancient Romans, were if anything, more angry than modern ones. Alain de Botton, Philosophy: Seneca on Anger, Channel 4 2000
Having seen so much of it at first hand, Seneca thought anger a terrible problem. He even devoted a whole book entitled On Anger to the problem. bid.
Seneca thought that anger a philosophical problem and amenable to treatment by philosophical argument. ibid.
The problem with these ideas is that they’re far too optimistic. In Seneca’s analysis, people get angry because they’re too hopeful. ibid.
Whenever we get angry there’s an element of surprise and a sense of self-pitying justice. ibid.
Seneca’s first piece of advice is to be more pessimistic ... If we can accept that there’s often nothing we can do about our frustrations, we will be less likely to lose our rag when we encounter them. ibid.
And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the Lord against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the Lord, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him. I Kings 16:7
And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him. I Kings 16:33
Wherefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand? II Chronicles 25:15