Audacity

"The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one is the healthy attitude of human nature."

"Be audacious yet flexible."

"Oh?" she said. "So you have decided to revise my guest list for me? You have the nerve, the – the –" I saw she needed helping out. "Audacity," I said, throwing her the line. "The audacity to dictate to me who I shall have in my house." It should have been "whom", but I let it go. "You have the –" "Crust." "– the immortal rind," she amended, and I had to admit it was stronger, "to tell me whom" – she got it right that time – "I may entertain at Brinkley Court and who" – wrong again – "I may not."

"La crainte fit les dieux; l'audace a fait les rois."

"Questa lor tracotanza non è nuova."

"De l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace."

"Audax omnia perpeti Gens humana ruit per vetitum nefas."

"Audendo magnus tegitur timor."