Cowardly Quotes

Cowardly Quote of the day

Suicide isn't cowardly. I'll tell you what's cowardly; treating people so badly that they want to end their lives.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

The most seditious is the most cowardly.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

I decline Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth.

We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so unfit the sea, that men of courage must starve.

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!

Once again, the hopeless cowardly Americans were back to repeat their cowardly act hiding behind a technological advance that God, most gracious, wanted it to be their curse and cause for shame.

A penalty is a cowardly way to score.

A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.

It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would have conjured up such a cowardly and depraved assault upon thousands of innocent people.

We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.

The world is not for cowardly peoples.

There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.

America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.

The Manifesto was a cowardly proceeding, the more I thought of it the less I liked it.

An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing.

Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.

Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly.

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.

War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.

Cowardly dogs bark loudest.

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

It is cowardly to commit suicide. The English often kill themselves. It is a malady caused by the humid climate.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping

Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to safeguard their existence on this earth.

The world has no reason for fighting in our defense, and as a matter of principle God does not make cowardly nations free.

I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.

Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.