Annoyance (n.) is man’s leaven; the element of movement, without which we would grow mouldy.
Annoyance (n.) gets paid out to whoever is nearest rather than to whatever actually caused it.
Annoyance (n.) cannot be explained to anyone else without the explainer coming out of it worse.
Annoyance (n.) is a measure of one's character. One is no bigger than the things that annoy one.
A Bad temper (n.) is like weather in a house, and everyone but its owner learns to read the sky.
A Bad temper (n.) is a habit because it works, not because it cannot be helped.
A Bad temper (n.) is like weather indoors, checked by everyone in the house before they speak.
Bad temper (n.) is only ever shown downward, to people who cannot leave.
Fury (n.) is like a house fire, worst for the building it started in.
Fury (n.) gets spent on whoever is safest to spend it on, which is rarely whoever caused it.
Fury (n.) goes to whoever is nearest and least able to leave.
Fury (n.) feels precisely like being right, which is the whole danger of it.
Indignation (n.) makes the underprivileged virtuous: they rage and curse because they do not want to have become bad men for nothing.
Indignation (n.) may stand higher morally than the laughing satyr, but is less instructive — and no one lies as much as the indignant do.
Indignation (n.) feels cleanest when it is least examined
Indignation (n.) is anger that arrived wearing a principle