Valour Quotes

• In testimony of their Respect For The Patriot of incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier of approved Valour The Statesman of consummate Wisdom; Whose Talents and Virtues will be admired By Grateful Posterity Long after this Marble shall have mouldered into Dust.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Wisdom, Integrity, Tombstone

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• Valour needs first strength, then a weapon.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Strength, Weapons, Firsts

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• Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Perfect, Would Be

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• Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

  Thomas Browne

  Life, Death, Warrior

  Sir Thomas Browne (1831). “Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings”, p.82

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• The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

  William Shakespeare

  Valor, Offering Advice, Discretion

  "The Plays and Poems of Shakspeare".

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• Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Fear, Religion

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.139, Tara Publishing

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• It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour.

  Michel Ney

  War, Prodigies, Aggression

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• Let valour end my life!

  Walter Raleigh

  History, Ends, British History

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• We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Pride, World

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• Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome; And all thy hues were born in heaven.

  Joseph Rodman Drake

  Stars, Home, Heart

  Joseph Rodman Drake (1835). “The Culprit Fay: And Other Poems”, p.84

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• You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valour, but to bear.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Bears, Looks

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson, Richard Farmer (1799). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Timon of Athens”

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• In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.

  John Milton

  Land, Share, Vain

  John Milton (1873). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem, Notes Critical and Explanatory, an Index to the Subjects of Paradise Lost, and a Verbal Index to All the Poems”, p.482

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• Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.

  John Donne

  Courage, Despair, Cowardice

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• I grant an ugly woman is a blot on the fair face of creation; but as to the gentleman, let them be solicitous to possess only strength and valour: let their motto be:Hunt, shoot, and fight: the rest is not worth a flip.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Fighting, Gentleman, Ugly

  1847 Jane Eyre ch.17.

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• The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon
  valour.

  Livy

  Courage, Honorable, Wells

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXXIV, section 14,

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• When Freedom from her mountain-height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light. Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us?

  Joseph Rodman Drake

  Morning, Stars, Fall

  'The American Flag' in New York Evening Post, 29 May 1819 (attributed also to Fitz-Greene Halleck)

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• My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Hands, Cowardice

  'The Rivals' (1775) act 5, sc. 3

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• We are become Middle Men, of the Twilight, but with memory of other things. For as the Rohirrim do, we now love war and valour as things good in themselves, both a sport and an end; and though we still hold that a warrior should have more skills and knowledge than only the craft of weapons and slaying, we esteem a warrior, nonetheless, above men of other crafts. Such is the need of our days.

  Faramir

  Sports, Memories, War

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• Valour that parlies is neare yeelding.
  [Valor that parleys is near yielding.]

  George Herbert

  Valor

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• Nothing short of the Almighty Power of God can Save us - it is not in our Numbers, our Union, or our Valour that I dare trust.

  Abraham Clark

  Numbers, Unions, Almighty

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• Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Certain, Diffidence, Has Beens

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.4

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• Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.

  David Gemmell

  Respect, Real, Friendship Love

  David Gemmell (2009). “Troy: Shield Of Thunder”, p.193, Random House

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• There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged an attack. As it crossed the cold water, it lost its fervour. Instead of valour or gallantry, you could hear the sadness of a soul parting with everything that it loved, calling on its nearest and dearest to wake up, to lift their head from their pillows and hear for the last time the voice of a father, a husband, a son or a brother...

  Vasily Grossman

  Brother, Husband, Father

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• For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: / His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Eye, Grace

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 297

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• This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion.

  William Shakespeare

  Crush, Men, Elephants

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes : with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.229

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