The Knight in the triumph of his heart made several 6 reflections on thegreatness of the British Nation; as, that one Englishman could beat three Frenchmen; that we could never be in danger of Popery so long as we took care of our fleet; that theThames was thenoblest river in Europe; that London Bridge was a greater piece of work than any of the Seven Wonders of the World; with many other honest prejudices which naturally cleave to the heart of a true Englishman.

-Addison,Joseph
  In The Spectator, no.383, 20 May.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger isalwaysthat hewill not recognize when he is dull.

-Auchincloss, Louis Stanton
  Pioneers and Caretakers:  A Study of Nine American Women Novelists.

A real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a reasonable price, and where girlsmight be sent to be out of the wayand scramblethemselves into a little education, without any danger of coming back prodigies.

-Austen,Jane
  Emma, ch.3.

Neither run into any kind of danger.

-Book of Common Prayer
Morning Prayer, Third Collect, for Grace.

There's death in the cupösae beware! Nay, moreöthere is danger in touching; But wha can avoid the fell snare? The man and his wine's sae bewitching!

-Burns, Robert
  'Inscription on a Goblet'.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

-Chapman, George
  The Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois, act 5, sc.1.

The French will only be united under the threat of danger. How else can one govern a country that produces 246 different types of cheese?

-de Gaulle, Charles
  Speech. Quoted in Les Mots du Ge¤  ne¤  ral (1962).

Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.

-Dryden,John
  Alluding to  Anthony Ashley Cooper, first Earl of Shaftesbury, leader of the Exclusion forces.  Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.160^2.

Of course I realized there was a measure of danger. Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going.Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.

-Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry
  20 Hours: 40 MinutesöOur Flight in the Friendship, ch.5. US actor and director. He achieved fame initially for his roles in westerns,    but    more    recently    has    directed    several    well- respected  films,  including  Unforgiven  (1992)  and  Mystic River (2003).

  Thegrouseare inno dangerat all from peoplewhoshoot grouse.

-Edinburgh, Prince Philip, Duke of
  Quoted in Private Eye, no.693, 8  Jul.

Like dancers on the ropes poor poets fare, Most perish young, the rest in danger are.

-Etherege, Sir George
  The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter, prologue.

If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back as a buzzard.Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

-Faulkner,William Harrison
  Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

It is upon those who say that it is necessary to exclude forty-nine fiftieths of the working classes [from the vote] toshowcause, and Iventuretosay that every manwho is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger, is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.

-Gladstone,W(illiam) E(wart)
  House of Commons,11 May.

That feeling of exhilaration which a measure of danger brings to the visitor with a return ticket.

-Greene, (Henry) Graham
  The Quiet  American, introduction.

Motor racing is dangerous; but what is danger? It is dangerous to climb a mountain. It is dangerous to cross main roads. It is dangerous to explore a jungle.One cannot frame regulations to make everything safe.

-Hawthorn, Mike
  Shortly before his death. Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

This [Magna Carta] has been forced from the King. It constitutes an insult to the Holy See, a serious weakening of the royal power, a disgrace to the English nation, a danger to all Christendom, since this civil war obstructs the crusade. Therefore†we condemn the charter and forbid the King to keep it, or the barons and their supporters to make him do so, on pain of excommunication.

-Pope Innocent III originally Lotario de' Conti di Segni
  Papal Bull, 24  Aug.

Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man reversed for thee: Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  The Vanity of Human Wishes, l.155^60.

He has no faith in physic. He does think Most of your doctors are the greater danger, And worse disease, t'escape.

-Jonson, Ben
  Volpone, act1, sc.4.

'Tis grown almost a danger to speak true Of any good mind, now:There are so few.

-Jonson, Ben
  The Forest,'Epistle to Katherine, Lady Aubigny'.

A'sound' banker, alas! is not one who foresees danger and avoidsit, but onewho, whenheisruined, isruined in a conventional and orthodox wayalong with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.

-Keynes (of Tilton),John Maynard, 1st Baron
Essays in Persuasion.