Henry IV I 2012 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan - William Shakespeare - Homer - Michel de Montaigne - Ralph Waldo Emerson - Miguel de Cervantes -
The best part of valour is discretion. William Shakepseare, Henry IV I starring Roger Allam & Oliver Cotton & Jamie Parker & Joseph Timms & Sam Crane & Jason Baughan & Patrick Brennan & William Gaunt & Christopher Godwin & Daon Broni et al, director Dominic Dromgoole, Falstaff, Globe Theatre, Sky Arts 2012
The better part of valour is discretion. William Shakespeare, I Henry IV V iv 118-119, Sir John to Prince Harry
The vapour of our valour will o’erturn them. William Shakespeare, Henry V IV ii 24, Constable
For thou art framed of the firm truth of valour. ibid. IV iii 14, Exeter
He is as full of valour as of kindness,
Princely in both. ibid. IV iii 15-16, Clarence
For valour, is not love a Hercules,
Still climbing trees in the Hersperides? William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost IV iii 340
He’s truly valiant that can suffer wisely
The worst that man can breathe and make his wrongs
His outsides, to wear them like his raiment, carelessly;
And ne’er prefer his injuries to his heart.
To bring it into danger. William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens III v 31
My valour is certainly going! – it is sneaking off! – I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands! Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals
If you are very valiant, it is a god I think who gave you this gift. Homer, The Iliad
Valour is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own. Michel de Montaigne, Cannibales
Valour consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generaled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth; and his alert acceptance of it, from whatever quarter; the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world may at any time be superseded and decease. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. Miguel de Cervantes