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Quotes about Wrath


Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.

Philip James Bailey

And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright.

Omar Khayyam ("The Tent-Maker")

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

Theodor Reik

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning.

Theodor Reik

Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again. - Richard Crashaw,

Richard Crashaw

Called me wessel, Sammy--a wessel of wrath.

Charles Dickens

Hear how he clears the points o' Faith Wi' rattling an' thumpin'! Now meekly calm, now wild in wrath, He's stampin', and he's jumpin'!

Robert Burns

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

Theodor Reik

It seems that when we are oppressed by the knowledge of our worthlessness we do not see ourselves as lower than some and higher than others, but as lower than the lowest of mankind. We hate then the whole world, and we would pour our wrath upon the whole of creation.

Eric Hoffer

We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Come not within the measure of my wrath. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4.

William Shakespeare

It would have been as though he [President Andrew Johnson] were in a boat of stone with masts of steel, sails of lead, ropes of iron, the devil at the helm, the wrath of God for a breeze, and hell for his destination.

Emery Alexander Storrs

A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

Francis Beaumont and John Bible

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.

Unattributed Bible

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

Oliver Proverb

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

Henri Louis Bible

Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin?

Joseph Addison

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

Joseph Addison

Avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

Romans 12:19

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

Francis Beaumont and John Bible

The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

William Blake

We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But when I breath with the birds, The spirit of wrath becomes the spirit of blessings, And the dead begin from their dark to sing in my sleep.

Theodore Roethke

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

William R. Alger

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

Theodor Reik

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