8 Metaphors for audacities

'Stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt,' ii. 292, n. 1. AUTHORS.

'Stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt,' ii. 292, n. 1. AUTHORS.

They failed to perceive that he owed his grandeur to his personality, and that the audacities which fascinated them became mere whimsical extravagances when severed from his terribilità and sombre simplicity of impassioned thought.

As, for instance, diffidence is the opposite to confidence, and is therefore a vice; audacity is not the opposite of confidence, but is near it and akin to it, and, nevertheless, is also a vice.

This bright audacity is the perfection of moral and intellectual health.

His audacity, it seemed, could hardly be purposeless, and his purpose could not be innocent.

To revenge reasonable incredulity, by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt."

Audacity, as the French term it, is a great quality in war, and often achieves more than the most calculated wisdomnay, it becomes wisdom in that sort of struggle; and we are far from being sure that audacity is not sometimes as potent in trade.

8 Metaphors for  audacities