Quotes About Risk

Do you really think ... that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not -- there is no weakness in that.

You are remarkably modern, Mabel. A little too modern, perhaps. Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern. One is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.

Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.

Credit is a young man's capital.

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern.  One is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly. 

Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life.

La ventaja de jugar con fuego, lady Caroline, es que no nos quemamos. Sólo se quema la gente que no sabe jugar con él.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If I ever get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

love is not safe

very essence of romance is uncertainty.  If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.  If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If

I only knew that I had seen perfection face to face, and that the world had become wonderful to my eyes-- to wonderful, perhaps, for in such mad worships there is peril, the peril of losing them, no less than the peril of keeping them...

I only knew that I had seen perfection face to face, and that the world had become wonderful to my eyes-- too wonderful, perhaps, for in such mad worships there is peril, the peril of losing them, no less than the peril of keeping them...

Optimism is cowardice .

Ten en cuenta que si regalas algo a tu amante antes de haberla poseído, es muy fácil que te quedes sin regalo y sin amante.

Greatly he failed, but he had greatly dared.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

We'll fling the door open and make a rush, said Bill. Supposing they shoot, old scout? Burglars never shoot, said Bill. Which was comforting provided the burglars knew it.

How much risk should civil engineers design for? If the answer is zero risk, then nothing would ever be built.

Too often on such occasions one feels, as I feel so strongly with regard to poor old Stilton, that the kindly thing to do would be to seize the prospective bridegroom's trousers in one's teeth and draw him back from danger, as faithful dogs do to their masters on the edge of precipices on dark nights.