Cowardice Quotes
Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.
We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.
It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.
They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
When cowardice becomes a fashion its adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot.
Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.
I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.
It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.
Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.
I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.
That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me.
Alec would have said he could have benefited from a bit more in the way of constructive cowardice.
Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice.
To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice.
...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were afraid to own them.
There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.
cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?
Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur.
Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it.
What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.
For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.
The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.
Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.
Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.
