What are furious?

Famous quotes containing the word furious:

“The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“the heart
slips backward,
remembering, remembering,
where the god had been
as he beat his furious wings.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“My liturgy would employ
Images of sousing,
A furious devout drench....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)