“Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”
“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
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Ambrose Bierce 204
American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabu… 1842–1914Related quotes

“Listen, my body is attracted to your body but when you speak it makes my brain angry.”

Source: Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom (1994, with Edward Esko), p. 41

“The truth shall make you free, but first it shall make you angry.”

“Leave the breast
And then the nest
And then regret you ever left.”
Song lyrics, Never for Ever (1980)
“I don't trust easily, so when I tell you I trust you, don't make me regret it.”

The dragon to St. George on plans to stage their combat.
Dream Days (1898), The Reluctant Dragon
Context: No doubt you would deeply regret any error you might make in the hurry of the moment; but you wouldn't regret it half as much as I should! However, I suppose we've got to trust somebody, as we go through life, and your plan seems, on the whole, as good a one as any.