26
angry people are not always wise
The complete collection
All quotes
Every quote we hold, 2473 of them from 233 people across 1123 works. Filter it, sort it, and follow any citation back to the source.
2418 checked at source
Filter the collection
Category
Feeling
Attribution
27
Politics need not be a raging fire destroying everything in its path.
28
We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts.
29
Your heart is wounded with compassion to hear the mourning of friends, and, perhaps with anger, to hear the counterfeit condolings of pretenders.
30
this vice of ingratitude has its source either in avarice or in suspicion
31
freedom in speech is friendly and has weight, but reproach is selfish and little
32
We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another--until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
33
Most men, when they repent, oblige their friends to share the bitterness of that repentance.
34
There is then no sympathy, but an uneasy craving after it, and a dissatisfaction which pursues you on the way, and in the end probably produces ill-humour.
35
Most of the friends I have seen have turned out the bitterest enemies, or cold, uncomfortable acquaintance.
William Hazlittverified·On Living to One's-Self, in Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners·January 1821
36
It is better therefore to listen patiently to a friend's rebuke, for if he should afterwards do wrong himself and so need rebuke, he has set you the example of freedom of speech.
37
I looked in your cup to see if you had enough. You looked in mine to check if I had more than you. That difference says everything. We are not the same.