Top 14 Formidable Quotes

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

Edward Gibbon

Government, Enemy, Formidable

Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.313

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.

Marlene Dietrich

Grace, Mixtures, Formidable

"Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes".

Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.

Robert Breault

Effort, Challenges, Formidable

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Truth, Earth, Formidable

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.

Charles Caleb Colton

Terrible, Formidable, Sensations

Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.186

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

Hannah More

Formidable, Reformation, Seems

Hannah More (1803). “The Works of Hannah More, in Four Volumes: Including Several Pieces Never Before Published”, p.279

Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

Winston Churchill

Analogies, Weapons, Formidable

Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.

Sophocles

Men, Formidable

Antigone, 332-3 (translated by H Lloyd-Jones,1994).

It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Taste, Formidable, Englishmen

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “English traits”, p.115

Hillary Clinton is such a formidable candidate.

Natalie Portman

Clinton, Formidable, Candidates

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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Despotism, Formidable

A multitude of words is probably the most formidable means of blurring and obscuring thought. There is no thought, however momentous, that cannot be expressed lucidly in 200 words.

Eric Hoffer

Mean, Formidable, Multitudes

"Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in "Harper's Magazine", Entry (1954), July 2005.