Quotes and Sayings About Coward
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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.
-- Aaron HillSource : Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.15
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While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.
-- Al Gore -
I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.
-- Alan Garner -
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I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.
-- Alberto Salazar -
I am no coward sir! I shall stand and fight!" "Well, I am," said Sal. "So can we go... please?
-- Alex ScarrowSource : "TimeRiders: The Eternal War". Book by Alex Scarrow, July 14, 2011.
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
-- Alexander Pope -
Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.
-- Alexandra David-Neel -
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There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
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.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.
-- Anais Nin -
If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
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How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule? - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
-- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury -
You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.
-- Anthony Marra -
The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.
-- Aristotle -
A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn't tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been.
-- Betty Smith -
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Knowledge is the power, the cowards get devoured.
-- Big Boi -
To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.
-- Bill MaherSource : "The Left Grapples With Charlie Hebdo" by Bill Scher, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 12, 2015.
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You're a coward if you don't stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
-- Bjork -
I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
-- Bram Stoker -
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When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.
-- Brennan Manning -
The truth was, Azoth hated Azoth. Azoth was a coward, passive, weak, afraid, disloyal. Azoth had hesitated. Master Blint didn’t know it, but the poisons on the needle had killed Azoth. He was Kylar now, and Kylar would be everything Azoth hadn’t dared to be.
-- Brent Weeks -
There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.
-- Brian JacquesSource : Brian Jacques (2002). “Mossflower: A Tale from Redwall”, p.23, Penguin
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
-- Cai Guo-Qiang -
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I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
-- Carl ReinerSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
-- Carlos Ruiz ZafonSource : Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.277, Penguin
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Fortune helps the intrepid and abandons the cowards. I am the daughter of a man who did not know of fear. Whatever may come, I am resolved to follow that course until death.
-- Caterina Sforza -
I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.
-- Cees NooteboomSource : Cees Nooteboom (2013). “Rituals”, p.38, Hachette UK
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Zuniga Hides the Evidence ... Like the craven coward he is, Markos Zuniga, rising young star of the Democrats, has now removed the page at Daily Kos where he wrote "Screw them" about the four Americans torn apart and hung from a bridge in Fallujah.
-- Charles Foster Johnson -
Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards!
-- Charles Spurgeon