Fury
A thief.
Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.
Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.
pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides.
One of the Parcae, or Fates, esp. Atropos.
A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.
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Fury Quotations
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
Milton Friedman
Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.
Frank Sinatra
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Bertrand Russell
The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.
Davy Crockett
Abused patience turns to fury.
Thomas Fuller
Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
Dick Gregory
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
Joseph Addison
Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
Francis Quarles
Fury itself supplies arms.
Virgil
It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree.
James Weldon Johnson
Beware the fury of a patient man.
John Dryden
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
Ben Jonson
If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.
Jeremy Taylor
The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
Logan P. Smith
I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up a lot with humour. So yeah, it's interesting.
Bradley Whitford
About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury.
Ernie Pyle
People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.
Tatum O'Neal
The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.
Erich Maria Remarque
Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
Ida B. Wells
Hell hath no fury like a Democrat scorned.
Jeff Rich
Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?
Kerry Thornley
War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
Charles Edward Montague
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Fury Translations
fury in French is furie
fury in German is Furie
fury in Latin is rabies
fury in Norwegian is raseri, furie
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