| Author |
Quotes |
| Aldous Huxley | What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes -- ah, they have all the necessary leisure. |
| Angus Wilson | The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times. |
| Benjamin Disraeli | The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. |
| Benjamin Disraeli | Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. |
| Bette Davis | 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. |
| C D Andrews | You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us. |
| D J Enright | 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. |
| David Lloyd George | What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in. |
| Doris Lessing | What is a hero without love for mankind. |
| Doug Horton | Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket. |
| Edgar Watson Howe | A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around. |
| Gerald W Johnson | Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials. |
| H L Mencken | In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. |
| Jean Anouilh | Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy -- common clay, if you like -- eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others -- the 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. |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau | How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? |
| Jean Paul | No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one. |
| Jeanette Winterson | 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? |
| John Barth | Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. |
| Kitty Kelley | A hero is someone we can admire without apology. |
| Mark Sullivan | The more characteristic American hero in the earlier day, and the more beloved type at all times, was not the hustler but the whittler. |
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