Quotes
Quotes about Heroes
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because they had no bard to sing their praises. [Lat., Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi: sed omnes illacrimabiles Urgentur, ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia vate sacro.]
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happyâcommon clay, if you likeâeating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the othersâthe noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroesâah, they have all the necessary leisure.
Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?
Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
Heroes became heroes flaws and all. You don't have to be perfect to fulfill your dream.
Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
