quotes 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 -
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
-- Che Guevara -
An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.
-- Chief Joseph -
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No matter how hard it gets, I’d rather be a soldier drowning in my own blood than a coward in my own piss
-- Chino XL -
When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
-- Chinua AchebeSource : FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Apr 09, 2016
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Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
I’m a coward, I close my eyes. I don’t understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off.
-- Christopher Pike -
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It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
-- Cormac McCarthy -
He that opposes his own judgment against the consent of the times ought to be backed with unanswerable truths; and he that has truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because of other men's opinions.
-- Daniel Defoe -
He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because fo other mens's opinions.
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There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.
-- David GemmellSource : David Gemmell (2009). “Dark Moon”, p.342, Random House
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The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.
-- David Gemmell -
By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism
-- David Gemmell -
You cannot be brave if you do not have a coward inside you.
-- Deepak Chopra -
It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.
-- Dolores Ibarruri -
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Lack of conditioning will make a coward of us all.
-- Dominick Cruz -
What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!
-- Duke of Wellington -
I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
-- Edith Piaf -
Margaret had always dreaded lest her courage should fail her in any emergency, and she should be proved to be, what she dreaded lest she was--a coward. But now, in this real great time of reasonable fear and nearness of terror, she forgot herself, and felt only an intense sympathy--intense to painfulness--in the interests of the moment.
-- Elizabeth Gaskell -
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Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
-- Ellis Peters -
This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.
-- Elmer Davis -
No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere...
-- Emily BronteSource : "Last Lines" l. 1 (1846)
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Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.
-- Emmanuel JalSource : "'I just wanted to kill'". Interview with Angus Batey, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2008.
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It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors.
-- Enoch PowellSource : "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell" by Simon Heffer, (p. 53), 1999.
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Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards
-- Eric HolderSource : Speech at the DOJ African-American History Month Program, delivered 18 February 2009
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Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.
-- Eric Jerome DickeySource : Eric Jerome Dickey (1999). “Cheaters”, E P Dutton
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I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.
-- Eugene V. Debs -
Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.
-- Euripides -
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Poltroons, cowards, skulkers and dastards.
-- Eustache Deschamps -
Indian believes they ain't but two sins... bein a coward... and turnin agin yer own kind.
-- Forrest CarterSource : Forrest Carter (1989). “Josey Wales: Two Westerns”, p.120, UNM Press
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Heroes and cowards feel the same fear and action creates opportunities.
-- Garrison Wynn -
Hear, hear," said the Dog, raising her head. "It's always better to be doing, Prince. Besides, you don't smell like a coward, so you can't be one.
-- Garth Nix -
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That all men would be cowards if they dare, Some men we know have courage to declare.
-- George Crabbe -
The coward never on himself relies, But to an equal for assistance flies.
-- George Crabbe -
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.
-- George Eliot -
The saints were cowards who stood by to see Christ crucified: they should have flung themselves Upon the Roman spears, and died in vain-- The grandest death, to die in vain--for love Greater than sways the forces of the world!
-- George Eliot -
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Advertising is a conscienceless industry, populated by cowards and idiots, that warps and drains everyone. It eggs on the worst in all of us. If I could eliminate either advertising or nuclear weapons, I would choose advertising.
-- George Meyer -
When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.
-- George Sewell -
Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
-- George W. Bush -
There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.
-- Glen CookSource : Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.331, Macmillan
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I'd never allow myself to let myself call myself a coward.
-- Graham Taylor -
Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.
-- Harlan Ellison -
I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.
-- Haruki Murakami -
Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.
-- Haruki Murakami -
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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.
-- Heinrich Heine -
I don't fly on account of my religion. I'm a devout coward.
-- Henny Youngman -
You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.
-- Henry Rollins -
There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
-- Herman Melville -
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
-- Hermann Hesse -
I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.
-- Horace Walpole -
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I need not add that freedom is a dangerous thing. But it is hardly possible that we are all cowards.
-- Jack Parsons -
There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray.
-- James LiptonSource : "Fictional Character: Warden Stefan Gentles". Arrested Development, www.imdb.com. 2003.
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The day for the Negro man being a coward is over.
-- James Meredith -
Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.
-- James Russell Lowell -
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If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor.
-- Jane Porter -
Your on your on with this one babe." "Coward." "Calling me names isn't going to get me in there." -Ranger and Stephanie
-- Janet Evanovich -
Haters are cowards. When confronted they often back down. We must resist haters.
-- Janet RenoSource : "Hate crime investigators, prosecutors plot strategies". www.cnn.com. October 29, 1999.
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Currently we breed cowards and snitches. Whored society of sons of whores!
-- Janusz Korwin-MikkeSource : Blog post, November 04, 2010.
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Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery.
-- Jeff Cooper -
I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.
-- Jesse Owens -
Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards!
-- Joaquin MillerSource : Joaquin Miller (1871). “Songs of the Sierras”, p.107
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Dreaming the dream of God is not for Cowards.
-- Joey Johnson -
The coward only threatens when he is safe.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?’ I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. ‘What irony?’ I ask eventually, the words tumbling out in a hurried heap. ‘That I am to be shot as a coward while you get to live as one.
-- John Boyne -
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.
-- John ChristopherSource : John Christopher (2015). “Beyond the Burning Lands”, p.164, Simon and Schuster
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