Coward Quotes

What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.

I'm not brave enough to be a coward; I see the consequences too clearly.

The Holy Spirit can cast out the evil spirit of the fear of man. He can make the coward brave.

I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?

By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism

Many a man looking death, or simply compromise, in the face has been spared the label coward because his faith was bolstered by the memory of heroes who walked before him.

Coward is the most misused word in our society.

Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.

I spend my life imagining you, it is not time to be a coward.

The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom't were gross flattery to name a coward.

Ah, you coward! Look at you, running." "Actually, it's called improvising.

Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations!

I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.

Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.

Now ain nobody tell us it would be fair no love for my father cause the coward wasn't their" {Tu Pac Shukur}

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!

I’m a coward, I close my eyes. I don’t understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off.

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

Coward: someone who in a bad situation thinks with his feet

He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.

Hard words are for fools and cowards.

At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But I don't want to kill or be killed.

Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.

Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.

Let people hide in their homes, caged like chickens. Cowards deserve no better.

It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back... Watch out against the terrorism of gossip!

No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself. . .

This world is not for cowards.

I think I am more of a coward than anybody. It's a very weird feeling. The more I fear violence, the more I'm inclined to depict it in films.

How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?

It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife.

A coward with a gun is the most dangerous person in the world

I'm really a peaceful sort of coward.

You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.

I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

I am no coward sir! I shall stand and fight!" "Well, I am," said Sal. "So can we go... please?

Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.

Cowards dare others to do what they themselves do not dare to do.

the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.

They're great devotees of Noel Coward in England, of course, he's a favorite son, and so to play Coward in London is such fun, and anyway, the role is such a crazy lady. I just love doing that.

Somebody who should have been born is gone. Yes, woman, such logic will lead to loss without death. Or say what you meant, you coward . . . this baby that I bleed.

You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.

I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.

Obituaries are like near-death experiences for cowards.

When it comes to betting on yourself... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.