"The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger."

Anger, Thought, First, Habits

1

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger."

Exlpore more Anger quotes

"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Anger, Arrogance, Merit

"Never get angry. If you have to get angry, get angry at yourself and not at others."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Anger, Self, Control, Peace

"Getting angry means setting fire to your own wealth."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Anger, Regret, Truth, Power, Life

"Blow wind and crack your cheeks. Rage! Blow!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Anger, Power, Truth, Life, Reality

"Anger is a ghost.Human is the host."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Anger, Emotion, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"I hope he died of intestinal cancer in a part of the world where morphine is as of yet undiscovered."

Stephen King, American Author

Anger, Truth, Wisdom, Regret, Power

"Anger is one of the sinews of the soul."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Anger, Soul

"Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Anger, Power, Truth, Regret, Life

"All the subjects of the world can be included in the kashays of anger-pride-deceit-greed. Anger and deceit are the 'protectors'. They have indeed originated from greed. A proud person will have greed for self-validation and recognition from others. And deceit protects it."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Anger, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Inspirational

"A little fire of anger can burn everything that you have built over your lifetime."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Anger, Destruction, Regret

Explore more quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."

Trouble, Writers

"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."

Day, Land, May

"The crown of literature is poetry."

Poetry, Literature

"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature."

Life, Brothers, Literature, Now

"It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it."

People, Fact, Old, Trying

"A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing."

Home, Sex, Man, Want

"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."

Friendship, Friends

"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."

Character, Friends, Personality

"I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me."

Life, Mind

"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent."

Work, Wealth, Dignity