Top 100 Dare Not Quotes
#1. As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not (5.3.25-28).
William Shakespeare
#2. Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.
Phyllis McGinley
#3. There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.
H.P. Lovecraft
#4. Dare not usurp thy maker's place by giving way to wrath - wrath that goes forth in vengeance; "vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord."
Charles Simmons
#5. Dare not to criticise self, lift yourself up and set the boundaries for your worth. Speak kindly to self and hand your worries over to the wind,if you are here; you are successful already, start believing in your story, the destination will be meaningless if the journeys never been truly lived
Nikki Rowe
#6. Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
George Gordon Byron
#7. The world is grown so bad that wrens make pray where eagles dare not perch
William Shakespeare
#8. Optimism is America's birthright ... There is no social problem Americans
dare not attack. No problem, that is, except one: about marriage,
and marriage alone, we despair.
Maggie Gallagher
#9. The question is not can we heal? The question, the only question, is will we let the healing power of the risen Jesus flow through us to reach and touch others, so that they may dream and fight and bear and run where the brave dare not go?
Brennan Manning
#10. Pity, if one can generalize, is at the bottom of woman. When men like us, it is for our better qualities, and however tender their liking, we dare not be unworthy of it, or they will quietly let us go. But unworthiness stimulates woman. It brings out her deeper nature, for good or for evil.
E. M. Forster
#11. It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare not act according to the dictates of their consciences when acting thus would incur the popular frown.
Charles Grandison Finney
#12. [The prince] dare not let ethics keep him from doing whatever evil must be done to preserve himself and the state.
Jacques Barzun
#13. Dare not choose in your minds the work you would like to do when you leave the Home of the Students. You shall do what the Council of Vocations shall prescribe for you.
Ayn Rand
#14. That the arts are corrupt does not mean that Christians can abandon them. On the contrary, the corruption of the arts means that Christians dare not abandon them any longer.
Gene Veith
#16. As for myself, however, today is the day, and I dare not wait for some slow cultural drift finally to pave the way that I might easily float into some nebulous social salvation. I cannot depend on 'them' 'out there' to order into coherency this small sphere of my only present now.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
#17. Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves ... and has lost.
Terry Goodkind
#18. Nor myrtle
which means chiefly love: and love
Is something awful which one dare not touch
So early o' mornings.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#19. I am a monarch of God's creation, and you reptiles of the earth dare not oppose me. I render an account of my government to none save God and Jesus Christ.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#20. We must be brought to a place where, naturally gifted though we may be, we dare not speak except in conscious and continual dependence on Him.
Watchman Nee
#21. Do not bargain with any temptation; lock yourself immediately in My[Jesus] Heart and, at the first opportunity, reveal the temptation to the confessor ... Do not fear struggle; courage itself often intimidates temptations, and they dare not attack us.
Mary Faustina Kowalska
#22. Wherefore I dare not, I, put forth my hand To hold the Ark, although it seem to shake Through th' old sinnes and new doctrines of our land. Onely, since God doth often vessels make Of lowly matter for high uses meet, I throw me at his feet. - George Herbert1
Terryl L. Givens
#23. With freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk has not ended yet.
Nelson Mandela
#24. And, even yet, I dare not let it languish,
Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain;
Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,
How could I seek the empty world again?
Emily Bronte
#25. The curious thing is Americans don't mind individual mandates when they come in the form of payroll taxes to buy mandatory public insurance. In fact, that's the system we call Social Security and Medicare, and both are so popular politicians dare not touch them.
Robert Reich
#26. I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#27. We dare not think that God is absent or daydreaming. The do nothing God ... He's not tucked away in some far corner of the universe, uncaring, unfeeling, unthinking, uninvolved. Count on it, God intrudes in glorious and myriad ways.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#28. Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#29. I have found my star. She is beauty and grace. Elegance and goodness. My laughter in winter. She is courageous and strong. Bold and tempting. Unlike any other in all the universe, and I cannot touch her. I dare not even try. [Zarek]
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#30. Who can compute what the world loses in the multitude of promising intellects combined with timid characters, who dare not follow out any bold, vigorous, independent train of thought, lest it should land them in something which would admit of being considered irreligious or immoral?
John Stuart Mill
#31. It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
Seneca.
#32. For Teaism is the art of concealing beauty that you may discover it, of suggesting what you dare not reveal. It is the noble secret of laughing at yourself, calmly yet thoroughly, and is thus humour itself,
the smile of philosophy.
Okakura Kakuzo
#33. And you fathers, are you so busy making a living, playing golf, bowling, hunting, that you do not have time to talk to your boys and hold them close to you and win their confidence? Or do you brush them off, so that they dare not come and talk about these things with you?
Spencer W. Kimball
#34. I have no formal proof, but I dare not believe that Jean-Marie Le Pen would treat me as collateral damage in the battle he is having with the party.
Marion Marechal-Le Pen
#35. Woman, thou shouldst ever be clothed in rags and in mourning, appearing only as a penitent, drowned in tears, and expiating thus the sin of having caused the fall of the human race. Woman thou art the gate of the devil. It is thou who hast corrupted those whom Satan dare not attack face to face.
Tertullian
#37. I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel
The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do not hear the fairy reel
Neil Gaiman
#38. Tis well when we dare not do a thing we think is not good and fair; but not so well when we think a thing not good and fair because we dare not do it ...
Sigrid Undset
#39. If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people who are in great need of hearing truth, we dare not make any attempt to soft pedal that glorious truth.
Martin Luther
#40. There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.
Anna Katharine Green
#41. Abide with me from morn to eve, / For without Thee I cannot live: / Abide with me when night is nigh. / For without Thee I dare not die.
John Keble
#42. We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#43. I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#45. I dare not dream of hope, for i am not worthy of it. But after a word from you i can accept my poverty again; i shall joyfully endure my hopeless lot. I shall face the struggle; i shall be glad of it; i shall rise up again with renewed strength.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#46. He is no fool, Kublai. He understands far better than you realize. The khan's vast armies cannot return to being herdsmen, not anymore. He is riding the tiger now, my son. He dare not climb down.
Conn Iggulden
#47. In the black of night a man asks all the questions he dare not ask by daylight.
George R R Martin
#48. Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
Aaron Hill
#49. However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious , or impute crimes to it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#50. Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.
Charles Spurgeon
#51. The world shrinks to include only two people, only one of whom -- the beloved -- has power. This inequitable distribution naturally breeds resentment and feelings of hopelessness that the dependent person dare not express for fear of alienating the necessary person even more.
Jeanne Safer
#52. We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.
John F. Kennedy
#53. There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble to recall and dare not seek to interpret.
H.P. Lovecraft
#54. Think of the moment you count
most foul in your life;
conjure it,
supplicate,
pray to it;
your face is bleak, you retract,
you dare not remember it.
Hilda Doolittle
#55. I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan.
John Bonham
#56. No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.
Bertrand Russell
#57. But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#58. My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call.
A.K. Kuykendall
#59. We think we dare not be satisfied with the small measure of spiritual knowledge, experience and love that has been given to us, and that we must constantly be looking forward eagerly for the highest good.'
Jan Karon
#60. I don't think there's any loneliness greater than the loneliness to be found in a bad marriage. In solitary confinement, everyone knows you're lonely and feels sorry for you. In a bad marriage loneliness is your darkest secret, one you dare not even share with your spouse.
Daniel Quinn
#61. Great is our calling,
We dare not be idle.
The saddle is in place,
And Jesus is bridle.
Kari L. Greenaway
#62. Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.
Bruce Lee
#63. Shortly after his launch into eternity, Bonepenney's room at the inn is rifled by a maiden fair whose name I dare not utter aloud but who now sits demurely before me ...
Alan Bradley
#64. Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own
one of the heart, the other of the mind.
Jean De La Bruyere
#65. Warriors say: I dare not be like the host, but would rather be like the guest. I dare not advance an inch, but would rather retreat a foot.
Laozi
#66. I cherish the dreams of yesterday and dare not dwell on the err's of my past whose fate has been long decided, and effect I can not change. For the dreams of yesterday are the challenges of today, and the hope for tomorrow.
Mark Twain
#67. Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.
Steve Forbes
#68. The poorest man in his cottage may bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter; the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!
Barbara W. Tuchman
#69. Stefan felt around him for a chair, because he dare not take his eyes off the sleeping beauty before him. He finally managed to grab at something and sat.
Rachel Van Dyken
#70. He was the most complicated beautiful mess I'd ever seen and if this is what you feel, when you've met someone that is about to change your entire world; than I dare not hide myself away from it.
Nikki Rowe
#71. Dare not surrender to weakness you divine creation!
Bryant McGill
#72. How many people would like to get up in a social prayer-meeting to say a few words for Christ, but there is such a cold spirit of criticism in the church that they dare not do it.
Dwight L. Moody
#75. Fear is there just to make you stronger;
it's a perception to dare, not to scare.
Debasish Mridha
#76. Thy are the VICTORIOUS, who dare not to give up.
Vikrmn
#77. I am Hel," she agreed. "Sometimes called Hela, though most mortals dare not speak my name at all. No jokes, Magnus Chase? Who the Hel are you? What the Hel do you want? You look Hela bad. I was expecting more bravado.
Rick Riordan
#78. Look inside yourself; there is always something special you can do today! Look around yourself; there is always someone special do it for! Don't spare what you have to share, show you care and dare not to make it rare!
Israelmore Ayivor
#79. let them behold him scourged, hunted, trampled on, and they will come back with another story in their mouths. Let them know the heart of the poor slave - learn his secret thoughts - thoughts he dare not utter in the hearing of the white man;
Solomon Northup
#80. The Librarian has spoken, sally! We Dare Not Disobey!
James Turner
#81. God was calling them to love and to dare, not to hide and to be safe.
Marta Perry
#82. I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be the slave of Christ.
George MacDonald
#83. Those of us who are locked into ineffective expressions of anger suffer as deeply as those of us who dare not get angry at all.
Harriet Lerner
#84. One cat at the hole, and ten thousand mice dare not come out; one tiger in the valley, and ten thousand deer cannot pass through.
Sun Tzu
#85. For who that noght dar undertake,
Be riht he schal no profit take
[For who that dare not undertake,
By right he shall no profit take.
i.e., Nothing ventured, nothing gained.]
John Gower
#86. The real truth that dare not speak itself is that no one is in control, absolutely no one. This stuff is ruled by the equations of dynamics and chaos. There may be entities seeking control, but to seek control is to take enormous aggravation upon yourself. It's like trying to control a dream.
Terence McKenna
#87. If I know my own heart, I do now feel the necessity of resigning myself into the hands of my God, to mould and guide me at His will; tho I dare not say that I am, at present, willing to do it.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#88. Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.
Lewis Carroll
#89. He that dare not die, dare scarce fight valiantly (475).
Richard Baxter
#90. Peace is a virgin who dare not show her face without Strength, her father, for protection.
Charles Lindbergh
#91. A charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld, - The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled. But peers beyond her mesh, And wishes, and denies, - Lest interview annul a want That image satisfies.
Emily Dickinson
#92. For the church to act as if it dare not have any dealings with sinners is as much a betrayal of its mission as it would be for a hospital to turn away sick people or for a carpenter to refuse to touch rough-cut wood.
Robert Farrar Capon
#93. It is often the case with the silent children about us, that they cherish a dream which they dare not talk about.
Selma Lagerlof
#95. Thus we dare not conclude that because we learn about the Spirit we for that reason actually know Him. Knowing Him comes only by a personal encounter with the Holy Spirit himself.
A.W. Tozer
#96. One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#97. Be cautious not to utter a syllable! Step not out of the circle, and as you love yourself, dare not to look upon my face!
Matthew Gregory Lewis
#98. The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away.
Wendell Berry
#99. I have so many things to do today, I dare not ignore my time with God.
Martin Luther
#100. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do-for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and
split asunder.
John F. Kennedy
