Margery Allingham Quotes

I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness.

I was too aggressive. Too angry.

I don't think I'm angry. I'm horrified - powered by horror.

The easiest and most accessible emotion is rage.

Emotions kick up. You try not to kick things up, but you go through things you can't help.

There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.

Despair is anger with no place to go.

How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.

All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.

Alex McLeish will have had kittens - literally!

They are becoming hysterical. This is the result of frustration.

Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated.

Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.

It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger-- he was angry only because his position was so weak.

Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?

Of course, there are a lot of things I'm angry about in the world.

When I heard Jonathan [Cole's agent] repeat the figure of £55k-a-week, I nearly swerved off the road. 'He is taking the p**s, Jonathan!' I yelled down the phone. I was so incensed. I was trembling with anger. I couldn't believe what I'd heard.

Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking.

There is something wrong with you if you don't get angry about something.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority

It's normal at this point for the fear-anger syndrome to take over and make you want to hammer on that side plate with a chisel, to pound it off with a sledge if necessary. You think about it, and the more you think about it the more you're inclined to take the whole machine to a high bridge and drop it off. It's just outrageous that a tiny little slot of a screw can defeat you so totally.

Sadness isn't a natural response.

Anger is a passion, so it makes people feel alive and makes them feel they matter and are in charge of their lives. So people often need to renew their anger a long time after the cause of it has died, because it is a protection against helplessness and emptiness just like howling in the night. And it makes them feel less vulnerable for a little while.