Quotes

Quotes

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its
persistency. All men have wandering impulses,
fits and starts of generosity. But when you have
resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not
try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic
cannot be common, nor the common heroic.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson

You lived too long, we have supped full
with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.
?C. D. Andrews

Listen, my friend, there are two races of
beings. The masses teeming and happy --
common clay, if you like -- eating, breeding,
working, counting their pennies; people who just
live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine
dead. And then there are the others -- the noble
ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well
imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute
triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being
marched away between two gendarmes.
?Jean Anouilh

Everyone is necessarily the
hero of his own life story.
?John Barth

What is a society without a heroic dimension?
?Jean Baudrillard

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
?Bertolt Brecht

Never in the field of human conflict was
so much owed by so many to so few.
?Winston Churchill

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great
name and the inheritance of a great example.
?Benjamin Disraeli

We can't all be heroes because somebody
has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
?Will Rogers

There are new words now that excuse
everybody. Give me the good old days
of heroes and villains. the people
you can bravo or hiss. There was
a truth to them that all the slick
credulity of today cannot touch.
?Bette Davis

Nurture your mind with great thoughts;
to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
?Benjamin Disraeli

True courage is not the brutal force
of vulgar heroes, but the firm
resolve of virtue and reason.
?Whitehead

Every hero becomes a bore at last.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway,
Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes
to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend
on someone to make them subtle.
?D. J. Enright

What is our task?
To make Britain a fit country
for heroes to live in.
?David Lloyd George

Be your own hero, it's cheaper
than a movie ticket.
?Doug Horton

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero;
he can say he doesn't like pie when
he sees there isn't enough to go around.
?Edgar Watson Howe

What with making their way and enjoying
what they have won, heroes have no time
to think. But the sons of heroes -- ah,
they have all the necessary leisure.
?Aldous Huxley

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday
out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be
supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
?Washington Irving

Heroes are created by popular demand,
sometimes out of the scantiest materials.
?Gerald W. Johnson

Claret is the liquor for boys;
port for men; but he who aspires
to be a hero must drink brandy.
?Samuel Johnson

A hero is someone we can
admire without apology.
?Kitty Kelley

What is a hero without love for mankind.
?Doris Lessing

In war the heroes always outnumber
the soldiers ten to one.
?H. L. Mencken

Calculation never made a hero.
?John Henry Newman

No heroine can create a hero through love
of one, but she can give birth to one.
?Jean Paul

How many famous and high-spirited
heroes have lived a day too long?
?Jean Jacques Rousseau

The more characteristic American hero
in the earlier day, and the more beloved type at
all times, was not the hustler but the whittler.
?Mark Sullivan

The opportunities for heroism are limited
in this kind of world: the most people
can do is sometimes not to be as weak
as they've been at other times.
?Angus Wilson

It's true that heroes are inspiring,
but mustn't they also do some rescuing
if they are to be worthy of their
name? Would Wonder Woman matter
if she only sent commiserating
telegrams to the distressed?
?Jeanette Winterson