Valiant

Famous quotes containing the word valiant:

“There was a deserted log camp here, apparently used the previous winter, with its “hovel” or barn for cattle.... It was a simple and strong fort erected against the cold, and suggested what valiant trencher work had been done there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave,
The wise expect, the sorrowful invite,
And all the good embrace, who know the grave
A short dark passage to eternal light.”
—Sir William Davenant (1606–1668)

“A valiant man, Sire, fears no enemy, but the righteous anger of noble women weighs upon him as a heavy burden.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)