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)

“In faith, he is a worthy gentleman,
Exceedingly well read, and profited
In strange concealments, valiant as a lion,
And wondrous affable, and as bountiful
As mines of India.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“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)