"Lily-livered" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other. We must be defending or attacking something; only the lily-livered hide their natural cowardice by asking the impudent question, What is it all about? The heroic gird on the armor of the Lord, square their shoulders, and establish a muscular tension which serves to dispel doubt and begets the voluptuousness of bigotry and fanaticism.[28] In this mood ...
— The Mind in the Making - The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform • James Harvey Robinson |
