Top 11 Stout Quotes - Quoted Daily

He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.

He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.

Aristotle

Enemy, Overcoming, Stout

Be bold: Venus herself aids the stout-hearted.

Tibullus

Venus, Aids, Stout

Tibullus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Tibullus (Illustrated)”, p.230, Delphi Classics

Steady of heart and stout of hand.

Walter Scott

Heart, Hands, Stout

Sir Walter Scott (1862). “The Lay of the Last Minstrel. By Sir Walter Scott, Bart. With All His Introductions and Notes, Various Readings, and the Editor's Notes”, p.39

Even the stout of heart shrink when they see the approach of death.

Sophocles

Heart, Stout, Approach

A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair.

John Quincy Adams

Heart, Despair, Stout

"The works of Charles Sumner". Book by Charles Sumner, 1870.

I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.

P. G. Wodehouse

Wave, Bark, Stout

"Laughing Gas". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1936.

Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.

Charles Caleb Colton

Denial, Bears, Stout

Calonice: My dear Lysistrata, just what is this matter you've summoned us women to consider.What's up? Something big? Lysistrata: Very big. Calonice: (interested) Is it stout too? Lysistrata: (smiling) Yes, indeed -- both big and stout. Calonice: What? And the women still haven't come? Lysistrata: It's not what you suppose; they'd come soon enough for that.

Aristophanes

Soon Enough, Matter, Stout

Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery here we stand.

Walt Whitman

Horse, Mystery, Stout

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.3, NYU Press