"The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love."
― Walter Savage Landor
Topic(s): Anger
More From Walter Savage Landor
- "Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him."
- "We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier."
- "Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose."
More In Anger
- "But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out."― Eduard Shevardnadze
- "Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace."― Eddie Bernice Johnson
- "As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy."― Shelley Berman