VALOR

Related Subjects: Boldness, Chivalry, Courage

1. Valour would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice.—AGESILAUS
   

2. As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

3. If I advance, follow me!
   If I retreat, kill me.
   If I die, Avenge me!—LA ROCHEJAQUELIN, To His Volunteers in the Revolt of 1793 in La Vendee
   

4. To yield to the stronger is valor's second prize.—MARTIAL, On the Spectacles
   

5. If all the world were just; there would be no need of valour.—PLUTARCH, Lives
   

6. Valour that parleys, is near yielding.—Proverb
   

7. In a false quarrel there is no true valour.—Proverb
   

8. He is as full of valour as of kindness;
   Princely in both.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry V

9. I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others to taste their valour.—SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night
   

10. There is no holier spot of ground
    Than where defeated valor lies,
    By mourning beauty crowned!—HENRY TIMROD, Ode, Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead
    

11. Pluck takes us into a difficulty, nerve brings us out of it. Both are comprised in the noble quality we call valor.—G. J. WHYTE-MELVILLE, Riding Recollections