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Think of a man in a chronic state of anger! - Henry Ward Beecher By indulging this fretful temper, you alienate those on whose affection much of your comfort depends. - Hugh Blair Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged. - Sir Roger L'Estrange Though I carry always some ill-nature about me, yet it is, I hope, no more than is in this world necessary for a preservative. - Andrew Marvell, the Younger Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition. - Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek) Ill-nature consists of a proneness to do ill turns, attended with a secret joy upon the sight of any mischief that befalls another. - Bishop Robert South There cannot live a more happy creature than an ill-natured old man who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of doing them to others. - Sir William Temple
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