"In self-defense and in defense of the innocent,……" — Dean Koontz
"In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin."
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374 Quotes by Dean Koontz
Dean Koontz has 374 quotes on this site.
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I've a long list of things I don't know how I've done, but I've done them. In the end, it's…
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Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.
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Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a…
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The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.
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We are not born to wait. We are born to do.
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Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.
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How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight…
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No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.
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The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our…
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Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise…
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We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity,…
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Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.
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More Chivalry Quotes
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
— HonorÈ De Balzac
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It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
— Bono
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe…
— Edmund Burke
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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
— Lord Byron
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The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
— Horatio Alger
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Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.
— Alice Stone Blackwell
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Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the…
— Nellie L. McClung
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The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
— Charles Sumner
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Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On…
— Khalil Gibran
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The word "Chivalry" is derived from the French Cheval, a horse.
— Thomas Bulfinch
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I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue.
— Meg Ryan
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Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only exist in 80's movies? I want John Cusack holding a boombox outside my…
— Emma Stone
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