Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

It takes a lot to scare me.

Want of pluck shows want of blood.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.

You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier. Put them at a table together—what do you get? The sum of their fears.

I have never been scared.

I'm not scared of anything.

I'm afraid of everything. I'm not a naturally courageous person.

Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.

Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

I'm never nervous.

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.

Fighters display two things. They display confidence, or they display a look that says, 'I'm not sure.'

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

I wish I were braver, although I try.

I'm a complete coward in real life.