Bold Quotes
727 quotes by 570 authors
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Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.
— M.F.K. Fisher
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God…
— Anthony Trollope
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Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you…
— Victor Hugo
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You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, when occasion serves.
— Christopher Marlowe
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Any game plan? Xypher asked Sin. Don't die. I like it. Simple, bold. Impossible. Works for me. Kat scoffed at his sarcasm. What are you…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so his…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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When I was young and bold and strong, The right was right, the wrong was wrong. With plume on high and flag unfurled, I rode…
— Dorothy Parker
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A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up…
— Rudyard Kipling
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I have found my star. She is beauty and grace. Elegance and goodness. My laughter in winter. She is courageous and strong. Bold and tempting.…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
— Katharine Hepburn
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If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life -…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Long have you timidly waded Holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump off in the…
— Walt Whitman
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Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect…
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Let your youth have free reign, it won't come again, so be bold and no repenting.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors... Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid…
— Emilie Autumn
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While she was no radical, no natural breaker of rules, no seeker of the bold statement, she was in her own serene way uncaring of…
— Tarun J. Tejpal
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O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution and famine and…
— John Piper
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It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing strong women like…
— Isabel Allende
Who Wrote These Bold Quotes
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