Quotes and Sayings about Wrath
"'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old."
- Alcaeus
(Related: Man, Old, Wrath)
"Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason."
- William R. Alger
(Related: Men, Reason, Want, Wrath)
"The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction."
- William Blake
(Related: Horses, Wrath)
"I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow."
- William Blake
(Related: End, Wrath)
"But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!"
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Man, Silence)
"Beware the wrath of a patient adversary."
- John C. Calhoun
(Related: Wrath)
"But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!"
- George Canning
(Related: Heaven, Wrath)
"Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously."
- Marie de France
(Related: Anger, Wrath)
"Silver and gold the Gods have denied them, whether in mercy or in wrath, I am unable to determine."
- Germanicus
(Related: Gods, Gold, Mercy, Wrath)
"Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin."
- William Gurnall
(Related: Mercy, Sin, Wrath)
"Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path."
- George Herbert
(Related: God, Wrath)
"You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s."
- Charlton Heston
(Related: Wrath)
"The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling."
- Lou Henry Hoover
(Related: Fear, Wrath)
"Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on."
- Joyce Maynard
(Related: Life, Thought, Contempt, Nothing, Wrath)
"The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter."
- Dave Mustaine
(Related: Bible, Books, Envy, Fun, Gluttony, Greed, Help, Lust, Pretty, Pride, Self, Wrath)
"It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers respond to those who have incurred the wrath of a natural disaster that legal liability need not be hanging over their heads."
- Jon Porter
(Related: Legal, Disaster, Wrath)
"The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love that is God. Anyone who begins to live and grow away from God, who lives away from what is good, is turning his life toward wrath."
- Joseph Ratzinger
(Related: Life, Love, God, Living, Saying, Wrath)
"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."
- John Steinbeck
(Related: People, Wrath)
"Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ."
- George Whitefield
(Related: God, Nature, Blood, Children, Christ, Wrath)
"Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath."
- David Wilkerson
(Related: Christ, World, Wrath)
"There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath."
- Woodrow Wilson
(Related: History, Pity, Tears, World, Wrath)