#Danger Quotes

“Is this the generation of love? Hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers. Is love a generation of vipers?”

“You must not thinkThat we are made of stuff so fat and dullThat we can let our beard be shook with dangerAnd think it pastime.”

“He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.”

“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.”

“Tempt not a desperate man”

“'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.”

“And in the morn and liquid dew of youth,Contagious blastments are are most imminent.”

“I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not.”

“Your wisdom is consum'd in confidence. Do not go forth to-day.”

“"Lawyers Are": Perilous mouths.”

“Let me have men about me that are fat... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.”

“The hind that would be mated by the lionMust die for love.”

“Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.”

“He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf.”

“Security is the chief enemy of mortals.”

“Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.”

“The most dangerous thing is illusion.”

“Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.”

“Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.”

“What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn him with his foot away?”

“Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litter’d in one day, and I the elder and more terrible.”

“Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.”

“I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.”

“They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.”

“Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear - I fear greatly - the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar, even more loudly, even more widely.”

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”

“The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.”

“One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”

“Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun.”

“Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.”

“Look out! Behind you!”

“Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard.”

“When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.”

“For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within.”

“Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.”

“These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.”

“I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.”

“Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.”

“Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward”

“[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.”

“Danger, if met head on, can be nearly halved”

“Come not between the dragon and his wrath.”

“There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.”

“It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.”

“I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been 'under fire.' That was something.”

“Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.”

“For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing and knows it is bad; because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge.”

“Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.”

“Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.”

“Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.”