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Valour: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

He's truly valiant, that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe; and make his wrongs His outsides; wear them, like his raiment, carelessly; And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart,— T. A. iii. 5

To bring it into danger. Here, there, and every where, he leaves and takes; Dexterity so obeying appetite, That what he will, he does, and does so much, T.C.v.5 That proof is call'd impossibility. Engaging and redeeming of himself, With such a careless force, and forceless care, As if that luck, in very spite of cunning, T.C.v.5 Bade him win all. It is held, That valour is the chiefest virtue, and

Most dignifies the haver: if it be, • The man I speak of cannot in the world Be singly counterpois'd.— C. ii. 2

His valour shown upon our crests to-day, Hath taught us how to cherish such high deeds, Even in the bosom of our adversaries.— H. IV. PT. I. v. 5

O, this boy Lends mettle to us all!— H. IV. PT. I. v. 4

Methought he bore him in the thickest troop, As doth a lion in a herd of neat: Or as a bear encompass'd round with dogs, Who, having pinch'd a few, and made them cry, The rest stand all aloof and bark at him.— H. VI. PT. III. ii. 1.

When valour preys on reason, It eats the sword it fights with.— A. C. iii. 11.

In a false quarrel their is no true valour.— M. A. v. 1

I told you, Sir, they were red hot with drinking; So full of valour, that they smote the air For breathing in their faces; beat the ground For kissing of their feet.— T. iv. 1.

Plague on't; an I thought he had been valiant, and so cunning in fence, I'd have seen him damned ere I'd have challenged him.— T.N. ii. 4.

What valour were it, when a cur doth grin, For one to thrust his hand between his teeth, When he might spurn him with his foot away?— H. VI. PT. III. i. 4.

The Douglas, and the Hotspur, both together, Are confident against the world in arms. H.IV. PT. I. v. 1 Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel, Which smok'd with bloody execution, Like valour's minion Carv'd out his passage, till he fac'd the slave.— M. i. L

The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.— H. IV. PT. I. v. 4.

Why, thou knowest I'm as valiant as Hercules: but beware instinct; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter; I was a coward on instinct. I shall think the better of myself and thee during my life; I, for a valiant lion, and thou, for a true prince H. IV. PT. I ii.