rage quotes

Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 2:1.

Rage isthe only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

-Jimmy Breslin
  In The Times, 9 May.

No cord norcable cansoforciblydraw, orhold sofast, as love can do with a twined thread.The scorching beams under the equinoctial or extremity of cold within the circle Arctic, where the very seas are frozen, cold or torrid zonecannot avoid orexpel thisheat, fury, and rage of mortal men.

- Robert pseudonym DemocritusJunior Burton
Anatomy of Melancholy, pt.3, section 2, member1, subsection 2.

Why should the follies of this dull age Draw from thy pen such an immodest rage As seems to blast thy else-immortal bays, When thine own tongue proclaims thy itch of praise? Such thirst will argue drought.

-Thomas Carew
  'To Ben  Jonson, Upon occasion of his Ode of Defiance annexed to his play of  The New Inn'.

  Pity is lost in rage and fear.

-Thomas Carlyle
  History of the French Revolution, vol.3, bk.2, ch.7.

Heaven has no rage, like love to hatred turned, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorned.

-William Congreve
  Zara. The Mourning Bride, act 3, sc.8.

Dancing is a frenzyand a rage.

- SirJohn Davies
  Orchestra, or a Poem of Dancing, stanza16.

O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.

- SirJohn Denham
  Of the Thames. Cooper's Hill, l.189^92.

Some weigh their pleasure by their lust, Their wisdom by their rage of will, Their treasure is their only trust; And cloake'  d craft their store of skill. But all the pleasure that I find Is to maintain a quiet mind.

- Sir Edward Dyer
  'In Praise of a Contented Mind'.

But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

-Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.49^52.

   Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.

-Jean de La Fontaine
  Fables, pt.2, no.11,'Le lion et le rat'.

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

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

I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 27, l.1^4.

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

- Dylan Marlais Thomas
  'Do Not Go Gentle IntoThat Good Night'.

We may say 'God Save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General† Maintain your rage and your enthusiasm for the election now to be held and until polling day.

- (Edward) Gough Whitlam
  On the Governor-General SirJohn Kerr's action in dissolving theAustralian Parliament,11 Nov.Whitlam lost the subsequent election.

   The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of 908 Caliban seeing his own face in the glass.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray, preface.