Bold

Famous quotes containing the word bold:

“The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss—a drafty wench, her temperature up and down, full of bold promises and dust in the eye.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)

“I will redeem all this on Percy’s head,
And in the closing of some glorious day,
Be bold to tell you that I am your son.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Enthusiasm, being the infirmity of bold and ambitious tempers, is naturally accompanied with a spirit of liberty; as superstition, on the contrary, renders men tame and abject, and fits them for slavery.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)