Anger and Indignation

Thou wear a lion’s hide! doff it for shame, And hang a calf’s-skin on those recreant limbs.

Mad world! mad kings, mad composition!

Such an injury would vex a very saint.

Asses are made to bear, and so are you.

Tut! I have done a thousand dreadful things As willingly as one would kill a fly.

Off with his head!

The day will come that thou shalt wish for me To help thee curse this pois’nous bunch-back’d toad.

O! what a war of looks was then between them.

Like a red morn, that ever yet betoken’d Wrack to the seaman, tempest to the field.

Men ne’er spend their fury on a child.

The smallest worm will turn being trodden on.

O tiger’s heart wrapp’d in a woman’s hide!

Could I come near your beauty with my nails I’d set my ten commandments in your face.

’Tis not my speeches that you do mislike, But ’tis my presence that doth trouble ye. Rancor will out.

O stormy peple! unsad and evere untrewe!

This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, one who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.

For then, in wrath, the Olympian Pericles Thundered and lightened, and confounded Hellas Enacting laws which ran like drinking songs. 1

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

When I hear about writer’s block, this one and that one! Fuck off! Stop writing, for Christ’s sake: You’re not meant to be doing this. Plenty more where you came from.

Be regular and orderly like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Authority is never without hate.