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Defence Quotes

Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bring.

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.733, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.

"History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXVIII, section 44,

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

1932 Reading,Writing and Remembering, ch.8.

Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.

Oswald Spengler (1926). “The Decline of the West...: Form and actuality”

Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.

"Brooke Shields: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.

I was second in line of defence, behind Myrna Loy.

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Perverseness is your whole defence.

Jonathan Swift, John Mitford (1871). “The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift”, p.235

Muster your wits; stand in your own defence.

William Shakespeare, H. R. Woudhuysen (1998). “Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series”, p.241, Cengage Learning EMEA