Leigh Hunt Quotes

To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.

That damn fool will get himself killed by some other damn fool.

Sometimes you need to play with a knife between your teeth.

Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.

Don't dare a person who has nothing else left to lose.

I'm willing to fly close to the flame.

There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.

I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.

The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.

Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Tempt not a desperate man

Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.

Nearly everything that was fun, of course, was also a little dangerous: riding roller coasters, skydiving, gambling, sex.

Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself.

How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?

Obviously this person's a hazard. Stupid people are dangerous.

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.

If people will bring dynamite into a powder factory, they must expect explosions.

Imprudence gets us into more trouble than actual misdeeds do.

A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

Hazel!” he yelled. “That box! Open it!” She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te label read WARNING. DO NOT OPEN. “Open it!” Leo yelled again.

Love makes you foolish. It makes you throw every bit of logic away, do stupid things, dangerous things.

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.