DEFIANCE

Related Subjects: Courage, Defense, Obedience, Resistance, Threat

1. We have petitioned and our petitions have been disregarded; we have entreated and our entreaties have been scorned. We beg no more, we petition no longer, we now defy.—WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

2. Damn the torpedoes! Go ahead!—ADMIRAL FARRAGUT
   

3. Defiance provokes an enemy.—Proverb
   

4. "Come one, come all! this rock shall fly
   From its firm base as soon as I!"—SCOTT, The Lady of the Lake
   

5. Fear we broadside? no, let the fiend give fire.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
   

6. I do defy him, and I spit at him;
   Call him a slanderous coward and a villain;
   Which to maintain, I would allow him odds,
   And meet him, were I tied to run afoot,
   Even to the frozen ridges of the Alps.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard II
   

7. He breathed defiance to my ears.—SHAKESPEARE,Romeo and Juliet