The L is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteousinmercy.He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger forever.He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms103:8^10.

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

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs15:1.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 27:4.

Bigotry may be roughlydefined astheangerof menwho have no opinions.

-Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)
  Heretics, ch.20.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
  The Mill on the Floss, bk.1, ch.10.

People out of work are not given to talking much about the one thing on their minds.You only sense by indirection, degrees of anger, shades of humiliation and echoes of fear.

-Evans,Walker
Quoted in Fortune,11 Feb1980.

Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

-Forster, E(dward) M(organ)
  Howards End, ch.19.

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

-Halifax, George Savile, 1st Marquis of
c.1687  Political Thoughts and Reflections,'Of  Anger'.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

-Halifax, George Savile, 1st Marquis of
Collected in Complete Works (published1912).

She was thinkingöfor, since she had been formed by literature, she could think in no other wayöthat all this had been described in Dickens,Tolstoy, Hugo, Dostoevsky, and a dozen others. All that noble and terrific indignation had done nothing, achieved nothing, the shout of anger from the nineteenth century might as well have been silentöfor here came the file of prisoners, handcuffed two by two, and on their faces was that same immemorial look of patient, sardonic understanding.

-Lessing, Doris May ne¤  e Tayler
  Martha Quest, ch.2.

Behold me then, me for him, life for life I offer, on me let thine anger fall; Account me man; I for his sake will leave Thy bosom, and this glory next to thee Freely put off, and for him lastly die Well pleased, on me let Death wreck all his rage. 582

-Milton,John
  Christ speaking to God. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.3, l.236^241.

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles'rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons.

-Owen,Wilfred
  'Anthem for Doomed Youth'.

   Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.

-Piercy, Marge
  Stone, Paper, Knife,'TheWeight'.

Anger and tenderness: my selves. And now I can believe they breathe in me as angels, not polarities.

-Rich, Adrienne Cecile
AWild Patience HasTaken MeThis Far,'Integrity'.

  If you strike a child take care that you strike it in anger, evenattheriskof maiming itfor life. A blow incold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: How to Beat Children'.

Oh heav'nly fool, thy most kiss-worthy face Anger invests with such a lovely grace That Anger's self I needs must kiss again.

-Shute, Nevil originally Nevil Shute Norway
Astrophel and Stella, sonnet 73.