187 quotes found
“Heroes are created by popular demand sometimes out of the scantiest materials . . . such as the apple that William Tell never shot the ride that Paul Revere never finished the flag that Barbara Fri...”
“When the heroes go off the stage the clowns come on.”
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer.”
“This thing of being a hero about the main thing to it is to know when to die.”
“One murder makes a villain millions a hero.”
“The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.”
“True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.”
