| Quote | Author | Source | Email Quote |
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| "The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger." | William Shakespeare | Venus and Adonis |  |
| "My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight." | Charles Dickens | Our Mutual Friend | |
| "I think that you know me well enough, Watson, to understand that I am by no means a nervous man. At the same time, it is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you." | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Final Problem | |
| "Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated? " | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Land of Mist | |
| Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness. | Charles Dickens | Wreck of the Golden Mary | |
| Ill armed and half starved, they were still desperate men, to whom danger had lost all fears: for what was death that they should shun it to cling to such a life as theirs? | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The White Company | |
| "You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty." | L. Frank Baum | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | |
| "It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble." | H. G. Wells | The Time Machine | |
| Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself. | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | |
| Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing. | Jerome K. Jerome | Three Men in a Boat | |
| It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies. | Samuel Butler | The Way of All Flesh | |
| "The average man don't like trouble and danger." | Mark Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | |
| His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every peril in life is a form of sport, a fierce game betwixt you and Fate, with Death as a forfeit, made him a wonderful companion at such hours. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | |
| That big muscular frame of his held plenty of animal courage, but helped him to no decision when the dangers to be braved were such as could neither be knocked down nor throttled. | George Eliot | Silas Marner | |
| A man will tell you that he has worked in a mine for forty years unhurt by an accident as a reason why he should apprehend no danger, though the roof is beginning to sink . . . | George Eliot | Silas Marner | |
| That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger--not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose. | George Eliot | Silas Marner | |
| Still, I have no love for the cloth. Just as cotton, which is in itself the most harmless substance in the world, becomes dangerous on being dipped into nitric acid, so the mildest of mortals is to be feared if he is once soaked in sectarian religion. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Stark Munro Letters | |
| By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward. | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | |
| I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror. | Edgar Allan Poe | The Fall of the House of Usher | |
| "Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends." | William Shakespeare | Henry VI, Part One | |
