Audacity

Audacity is an insolent form of boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional. It implies a degree of impudence, but also fearlessness and intrepid daring.

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Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 46.

• La crainte fit les dieux; l'audace a fait les rois.
  • Fear made the gods; audacity has made kings.
  • Crébillon, during the French Revolution.

• Questa lor tracotanza non è nuova.
  • This audacity of theirs is not new.
  • Dante Alighieri, Inferno, VIII. 124.

• De l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace.
  • Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.
  • Danton during the French Revolution. (See also Carlyle—The French Revolution, Volume II. 3. 4).

• Audax omnia perpeti
  Gens humana ruit per vetitum nefas.
  • The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
  • Horace, Carmina. I. 3. 25.

• Audendo magnus tegitur timor.
  • By audacity, great fears are concealed.
  • Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia, IV. 702.