Perilous Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much…

— Edmund White

She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it,…

— Henry Cabot Lodge

A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.

— Robert E. Howard

The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!

— William Wordsworth

“The only thing worse than a perilous adventure is a boring one.”

— Lemony Snicket

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

— Elizabeth I

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes…

— Reginald Horace Blyth

“An alliance with the haramu-ful has always been a perilous thing. Perilous for his mother and father. For his friends. For his wife. For…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Love is a perilous dance too, you see. And if we stop dancing, we'll die. Don't ever stop dancing.”

— Kate Avery Ellison

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

— Maria Edgeworth

By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.

— Jessica Savitch