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Quotes About Fury

Anger - use it, but don't lose it!
~ Mr. T
An angry man is always a stupid man.
~ Chinua Achebe
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
~ Colley Cibber
Anger is short-lived madness.
~ Horace
Anger is a brief lunacy.
~ Horace
Anger is a momentary madness.
~ Horace
The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
~ Bayard Taylor
If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.
~ Jeremy Taylor
I am a giant squid of anger.
~ John Green
Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.
~ Virgil
How can there be such anger in the minds of the gods?
~ Virgil
That which an enraged woman can accomplish.
~ Virgil
Your ambition has cost you dear, sir," Hal said, trying to keep a rein on his fury. In victory a true warrior must show forbearance, his father had once said. He must not give in to the base instinct for revenge.
~ Wilbur Smith
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
~ William Blake
King. O THOU to whose fury the nations are But as dust! maintain thy servant's right. Without thine aid, the twisted mail, and spear, And forged helm, and shield of seven times beaten brass, Are idle trophies of the vanquisher.
~ William Blake
It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the natural grayness, becoming one with loneliness and quiet that has never known fury or despair. That was all I wanted, he thinks, in a quiet and slow amazement. That was all, for thirty years. That didn't seem to be a whole lot to ask in thirty years.
~ William Faulkner
Liar! Liar! shrieked suddenly from the now open trap door. Miracle Max whirled. Back, Witch-- he commanded. I'm not a witch, I'm your wife-- she was advancing on him now, an ancient tiny fury--and after what you've just done I don't think I want to be that any more--
~ William Goldman
His fists raised, his cheeks flushed with rage, his whole body trembling, the man stood there in front of me, beside himself with fury and having lost all self-control. After each outburst Hitler would stride up and down the carpet edge, then suddenly stop immediately before me and hurl his next accusation in my face. He was almost screaming, his eyes seemed to pop out of his head and the veins stood out in his temples.
~ William L. Shirer
Spit and blood!
~ Chris Wooding
Love and hope are infinitely more powerful than hate and fury.
~ Heda Margolius Kovaly
Spite is anger which is afraid to show itself, it is an impotent fury conscious of its impotence.
~ Henri-Frdric Amiel
Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.
~ Henry Rollins
He looked at her, and the fury expressed in her face alarmed and amazed him. He did not understand how his pity for her exasperated her. She saw in him sympathy for her, but not love.
~ Leo Tolstoy