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A strong person is not the person who throws his adversaries to the ground. A strong person is the person who contains himself when he is angry.
MMuhammad571–632Muwatta of Imam Malik, Good Character, hadith 12
When, O Catiline, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end of that unbridled audacity of yours, swaggering about as it does now?
Cicero107–43 BCThe First Oration Against Catiline (63 BC)
- Politics
Off with her head!
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter VIIIIn context
- Comedy
A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene II, spoken by HoratioIn context
- Emotion
All, save I, were at rest or in enjoyment: I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell within me; and, finding myself unsympathised with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.
Mary Shelley1797–1851Frankenstein (1818), Chapter XVIIn context
- Good & Evil
Aye, aye! and I’ll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition’s flames before I give him up.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter XXXVIIn context
- Motivation & Goals
Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I’d strike the sun if it insulted me.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter XXXVIIn context
- Pride
To the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter CXXXVIn context
- Enemies
People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
James Joyce1882–1941Ulysses (1922), Part III, Episode 16 (3 of 3)In context
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 Joyce1882–1941Dubliners (1914), ArabyIn context
- Pride
Come not between the dragon and his wrath.
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act I, Scene I, spoken by LearIn context
I will do such things,⁠—
What they are yet, I know not; but they shall be
The terrors of the earth.
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act II, Scene IV, spoken by LearIn context
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks!
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o’ the world!
Crack nature’s moulds, all germens spill at once,
That make ingrateful man!
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act III, Scene II, spoken by LearIn context
- Nature
The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849The Cask of Amontillado (1846)In context
- Enemies
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.
Robert Burns1759–1796Tam o’ Shanter (1791)In context