Definition of dare

"dare" in the noun sense

1. dare, daring

a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy

"he could never refuse a dare"

"dare" in the verb sense

1. make bold, dare, presume

take upon oneself act presumptuously, without permission

"How dare you call my lawyer?"

2. dare

to be courageous enough to try or do something

"I don't dare call him"

"she dares to dress differently from the others"

3. defy, dare

challenge

"I dare you!"

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Quotations for dare

Dare to be wise. [ Horace ]

He that cannot think, is a fool;
He that will not, is a bigot;
He that dare not, is a slave. [ Inscription on the wall of Andrew Carnegie's Library ]

There is no God dare wrong a worm. [ Emerson ]

Be our joy three-parts pain!
Strive, and hold cheap the strain;
Learn, nor account the pang;
Dare, never grudge the throe! [ Browning ]

To endure is greater than to dare. [ Thackeray ]

I dare do all that may become a man,
Who dares do more is none. [ William Shakespeare ]

Dare to act! Even Venus aids the bold. [ Tibullus ]

Wisdom and fortune combating together,
If that the former dare but what it can,
No chance may shake it. [ William Shakespeare ]

You dare as well take a bear by the tooth. [ Proverb ]

And what they dare to dream of, dare to do. [ Lowell ]

Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason?
Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason. [ Sir J. Harrington ]

Few dare write the true news of their chamber. [ Proverb ]

Long while I sought to what I might compare
Those powerful eyes, which light my dark spirit;
Yet found I nought on earth, to which I dare
Resemble the image of their goodly light.
Not to the sun, for they do shine by night;
Nor to the moon, for they are changed never;
Nor to the stars, for they have purer sight;
Nor to the fire, for they consume not ever;
Nor to the lightning, for they still persevere;
Nor to the diamond, for they are more tender;
Nor unto crystal, for nought may they sever;
Nor unto glass, such baseness might offend her;
Then to the Maker's self the likest be;
Whose light doth lighten all that here we see. [ Spenser ]

Women's glances express what they dare not speak. [ Alphonse Karr ]

How dare the plants look up to heaven, from whence
They have their nourishment? [ William Shakespeare ]

Few men dare show their thoughts of worst or best. [ Byron ]

You dare as well put out one of the devil's teeth. [ Proverb ]

O happiness! our being's end and aim!
Good, pleasure, ease, content! whatever thy name;
That something still which prompts the eternal sigh
For which we bear to live, or dare to die. [ Pope ]

The Alphabet Of Success

Attend carefully to details.
Be prompt in all things.
Consider well, then decide positively.
Dare to do right, fear to do wrong.
Endure trials patiently.
Fight life's battles bravely.
Go not into the society of the vicious.
Hold your integrity sacred.
Injure not another's reputation.
Join hands only with the virtuous.
Keep your mind free from evil thoughts.
Lie not for any consideration.
Make few special acquaintances.
Never try to appear what you are not.
Observe good manners.
Pay your debts promptly.
Question not the verity of a friend.
Respect the desires of your parents.
Sacrifice money rather than principle.
Touch not, taste not, handle not intoxicating drinks.
Use your leisure for improvement.
Venture not upon the threshold of wrong.
Watch carefully over your passions.
Xtend to everyone a kindly greeting.
Yield not to discouragement.
Zealously labor for the right, and success is certain. [ Ladies Home Journal ]

What constitutes a state?... Men who their duties know,
But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain. [ Sir William Jones ]

All may have, if they dare try, a glorious life or grave. [ Herbert ]

Love should dare everything when it has everything to fear. [ Saurin ]

A woman, when she either loves or hates, will dare anything. [ Proverb ]

The truly valiant dare everything but doing anybody an injury. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]

I am afraid to think what I have done; look on it again I dare not. [ William Shakespeare ]

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare. [ Queen Elizabeth ]

Men that make envy and crooked malice nourishment, dare bite the best. [ William Shakespeare ]

You are so tender, you dare not be hanged for fear of galling your neck. [ Proverb ]

The beings who appear cold, but are only timid, adore where they dare to love. [ Madame Swetchine ]

Those who appear cold, but are only timid, as soon as they dare to love, adore. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

What will not woman, gentle woman, dare, When strong affection stirs her spirit up. [ Southey ]

Alas! how galling is it to be injured by one against whom you dare make no complaint. [ Publius Syrus ]

Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody. [ Juvenal ]

Let him not dare to say anything that is false, nor let him dare to say what is not true. [ Cicero ]

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie; A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. [ Herbert ]

Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate. [ Bishop Hall ]

It is easy in adversity to despise death; real fortitude has he who can dare to be wretched. [ Seneca ]

There are very many things that men, when their cloaks have got holes in them, dare not say. [ Juv ]

Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes. [ Aaron Hill ]

Let us have faith that right makes might; and, in that faith, let us to the end dare to do our duty. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

Glances in a young woman are charming interpreters, which express what the lips would not dare to speak.

Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it. [ Lincoln ]

The realities of life are so repellent that few dare to look them in the face, and still fewer dare to speak of them. [ De Finod ]

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things. [ Madame Swetchine ]

They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend. [ Cicero ]

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but at the same time best know how to prize them most. [ Caleb C. Colton ]

I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men. [ Emerson ]

He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less. [ Colton ]

We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder. [ Emerson ]

Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare not contradict him, but we dare hardly disbelieve him to his face. A lie boldly uttered has the effect of truth for the instant. [ Hazlitt ]

From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot he is all mirth; he has twice or thrice cut Cupid's bowstring, and the little hangman dare not shoot at him: he hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks. [ William Shakespeare ]

My May of life is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf; and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but in their stead, curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath which the poor heart would fain deny and dare not. [ William Shakespeare ]

A woman's life can be divided thus: the age when she dances but does not dare to waltz - it is the spring; the age when she dances and dares to waltz - it is summer; the age when she dances but prefers to waltz - it is autumn; finally, when she dances no longer - it is winter, that rigorous winter of life. [ Mme. de Girardin ]

It is sufficient to have a simple heart in order to escape the harshness of the age, in order not to fly from the unfortunate; but it is to have some understanding of the imperishable law, to seek them in the forgetfulness against which they dare not complain, to prefer them in their ruin, to admire them in their struggles. [ Senancour ]

Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he lists, wherever he finds material suited to his work. He may even appropriate entire columns with their carved capitals, if the temple he thus supports be a beautiful one. Goethe understood this very well, and so did Shakespeare before him. [ Heinrich Heine ]

There is a hand that has no heart in it, there is a claw or paw, a flipper or fin, a bit of wet cloth to take hold of, a piece of unbaked dough on the cook's trencher, a cold clammy thing we recoil from, or greedy clutch with the heat of sin, which we drop as a burning coal. What a scale from the talon to the horn of plenty, is this human palmleaf! Sometimes it is what a knifeshaped, thin-bladed tool we dare not grasp, or like a poisonous thing we shake off, or unclean member, which, white as it may look, we feel polluted by! [ C. A. Bartol ]

dare in Scrabble®

The word dare is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

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dare in Words With Friends™

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Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

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Words within the letters of dare

2 letter words in dare (3 words)

3 letter words in dare (4 words)

4 letter words in dare (Anagrams) (3 words)

dare + 2 blanks (268 words)

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Words containing the sequence dare

Words that end with dare (5 words)

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