George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax Quotes

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.

Anger is a short madness.

People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another.

Even a small mouse has anger.

Anger's not a good emotion.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

I'm an angry guy.

I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.

I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many people you see in prison, unleashing war on their people, they are angry, and they take their anger and put it into a violent container.

Their rage supplies them with weapons.

I'm happy to report that everybody whose face I've wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched.

Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.

I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.

When anger comes, there is no way of satisfying its demands

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

If I thought anybody was messing with me, I was difficult.

Sometimes we equate anger to destructive physical violence, but anger need not be martial.

Sometimes I feel like hitting somebody. You look at the refs and they say, 'We'll take care of it.' I think, 'Yeah? You won't take care of it the way I'd like to take care of it.'

For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it.

I have a lot of hostility.

If you could kick the posterior of the person who has hurt you the most, ...you wouldn't be able to sit down for six weeks.

I actually had the urge to elbow an elderly lady today.

I decided there and then to sue the bastards.

Sometimes with anger you can be much more dangerous than with skill.