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
Abused patience turns to fury.
Thomas Fuller
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve
Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
Dick Gregory
Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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
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 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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