Francis Bacon Quotes

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

It doesn't take much to make me angry.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.

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

Rage can be so common it turns ambient.

Anger is a short madness.

I think rage is so ugly.

I'm an angry guy.

I don't know if I ever really get mad in real life.

Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Even a small mouse has anger.

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

I really don't get angry.

My assistants will bear testimony to the fact that I am a very angry man.

Angry people are not always wise.

Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.

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.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

To lose your temper is only useful once a year.