1,474 Quotes About Hero


  • Author Lord Chesterfield
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    We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

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  • Author Mary Higgins Clark
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    Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs

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  • Author Mason Cooley
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    Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking.

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  • Author Mason Cooley
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    The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.

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  • Author Michael Caine
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    I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.

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