Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Fitzgerald F. Scott 1896-1940
The Crack-Up
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
Freud Sigmund 1856-1939
A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.
Goethe Johann von 1749-1832
It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.
Larkin Philip 1922-1985
‘Study of Reading Habits'
Don't read too much now: the dude
Who lets the girl down before
The hero arrives, the chap
Who's yellow and keeps the store,
Seem far too familiar. Get stewed:
Books are a load of crap.
Mailer Norman
The Presidential Papers
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the Gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.
Morell Thomas 1703-1784
Judas Maccabeus
See the Conquering hero comes!
Sound the Trumpets, beat the drums!
Pope Alexander 1688-1744
En Essay on Man
Who sees with equal eye, as God of all,
A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,
Atoms or systems into ruin hurled,
And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Porteus Beilby 1731-1808
Death
... One murder made a villain,
Millions a hero.
Rogers Will 1879-1935
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
Rogers Will 1879-1935
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
Stoppard Tom
Travesties
War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.
Forster E.M. 1879-1970
An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into a bad pudding to make it palatable.
Heine Heinrich 1797-1856
When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.
Johnson Gerald
Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials ... such as the apple that William Tell never shot, the ride that Paul Revere never finished, the flag that Barbara Frietchie never waved.
Lewis C.S. 1898-1963
The Screwtape Letters
We have trained them [men] to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain - not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Lloyd George David 1863-1945
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
Meredith George 1828-1909
Beauchamp's Career
Thoughts of heroes were as good as warming-pans.
Mizner Wilson 1876-1933
I've had several years in Hollywood and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.
Westcott Brooke Foss 1825-1901
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.