Top 100 A Coward Quotes
#1. I think Hillary Clinton is a militarist. She is a political coward. The interesting thing about Hilary Clinton, like Bill Clinton dodging the draft, he never touched the Pentagon - she is in the same position.
Ralph Nader
#2. I started on the opening page of my own book.
'I am a cheating, weak-spined, women-fearing coward, and i am the hero of your story. Because the woman I cheated on - my wife, Amy Elliott Dunne - is a sociopath and a murderer.'
Yes. I'd read that.
Gillian Flynn
#3. In any event, it's done, said Papa-which are the words of a coward to the power of ten.
Muriel Barbery
#5. I'm a coward, January. I'm not sure if I can handle another heartbreak and I know if I fell for you, I'd fall so hard there'd be no coming back from it. You're extraordinary.
Fisher Amelie
#6. I'd never allow myself to let myself call myself a coward.
Graham Taylor
#7. Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.
Noel Coward
#8. May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward!
Swami Vivekananda
#9. Sir, I am not a brave man ... The truth is, I am an utter craven coward. I have never been within the sound of gunshot or in sight of battle in my whole life that I wasn't so scared that I had sweat in the palms of my hands.
George S. Patton
#11. Many years ago I remember a famous actress explaining to me with perfect seriousness that before making an entrance she always stood aside to allow God to go on first. I can also remember that on that particular occasion He gave a singularly uninspired performance.
Noel Coward
#12. 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
#13. Among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all
Tracy Kidder
#14. Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.
Noel Coward
#15. A coward can die many times, but love can only die once.
Kim Hyun-joong
#16. 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
#18. If any man has left us for fear of Nero, I shall not account him a coward; but I shall hail as a philosopher any man who has been superior to this fear, and I shall teach him all I know.
Apollonius Of Tyana
#19. What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burden; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!
Horace
#20. Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#21. suicide is committed by some one brave. A coward do not even dare to think about it and hide himself behind the wall of what we know as life.
Aimi
#22. There can be no failure if there really is a Plan. Defeated you may be, but never through any fault of your own. To bow to a cosmic will is no shame. You are not a coward; you are a martyr.
Umberto Eco
#23. The world didn't need an assassin with a coward's heart. It needed someone like Nehemia.
Sarah J. Maas
#24. Paradise is being able to say at that (second before our death) moment: I made some mistakes, but I wasn't a coward. I lived life and did what I had to do.
Paulo Coelho
#25. I am a man of peace, God knows how I love peace; but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.
Lajos Kossuth
#26. I think that for the coward every day carries a kind of death.
David Gemmell
#27. You say she loves him? No one but a coward would be defrauded of the woman he loved and who loved him. Ah, if I had once felt Madeleine's hand tremble in mine, if her rosy lips had pressed a kiss upon my brow, the whole world could not take her from me.
Emile Gaboriau
#28. Judith (sadly): A change has come over my children of late. I have tried to shut my eyes to it, but in vain. At my time of life one must face bitter facts!
Noel Coward Sir
#29. You do need an outlet to release all of those fears. You build it up and then, when you go to a movie theater, it's the last place that it's socially acceptable to be terrified. It's saying that, for the next 90 minutes, you're allowed to be afraid and you're not a coward for feeling that way.
Eli Roth
#30. It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#31. Whilst running away is a great strategy, a good coward always takes the unfair advantage.
Mark Lawrence
#32. All of this caused Kiyoaki constant pain. In comparison with Satoko's public humiliation, however, he did not even have a slighting remark to contend with. And however acute his private agony, it was, after all, the torment of a coward.
Yukio Mishima
#33. Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.
Suzanne Collins
#35. Vasily laughed. "I can't decide if you're a fearmonger or a coward."
"And I can't decide if you're an idiot or an idiot.
Leigh Bardugo
#36. Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll'd above their betters.
Thomas Otway
#37. Couldn't you see that all my flippancy was only a mask, hiding my real emotions
crushing them down desperately!
Noel Coward
#38. I spend my life imagining you, it is not time to be a coward.
Gustavo Cerati
#39. I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.
Noel Coward
#40. 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.
David Dudley Field II
#41. He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Albert Camus
#42. I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else.
Tony Parsons
#44. Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard
Some do it with a bitter look
Some with a flattering word
The coward does it with a kiss
The brave man with a sword
Oscar Wilde
#45. 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
#46. I'm a fucking coward."
"Maybe." Craw jerked his thumb over his shoulder at Whirrun's corpse. "There's a hero. Tell me who's better off.
Joe Abercrombie
#47. Order whatever punishment you like, from the coward's distance of a chain-lenght. You and Govart are two of a kind.
C.S. Pacat
#48. Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical.
Truman Capote
#50. Passion in a dromedary doesn't go so deep; a camel when it's mating never sobs itself to sleep.
Noel Coward
#51. The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
Aristotle.
#52. At 11, I went to live with my maternal nan and granddad temporarily, after my parents separated, and Nan would let me have a go on her piano. My grandparents were like something out of the Noel Coward play, 'This Happy Breed,' and it was magical to hear them sing music-hall songs.
Jools Holland
#53. A fool shouts charge when he should retreat, A coward shouts retreat when he should charge and a wise man knows the difference. I charge.
Tonny K. Brown
#54. You pretended to hate him because you were a coward. But you eventually loved him, and he is a part of you now, because you have since grown brave.
N.K. Jemisin
#55. Patriots don't go to Russia. They don't seek asylum in Cuba. They don't seek asylum in Venezuela. They fight their cause here. Edward Snowden is a coward. He is a traitor. And he has betrayed his country. And if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so.
John F. Kerry
#56. I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried, But that was fiction, Some coward got the story twisted, Like I no longer existed, Mysteriously missin', I'm known worldwide baby, I ain't hard to find.
Tupac Shakur
#57. Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
Ambrose Bierce
#58. Maybe you have to keep your pain and loss to know that you can survive whatever life deals you. Perhaps without putting your pain in its place in your life, you became something of a coward.
Robin Hobb
#59. I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago.
For a little while I'm not afraid.
Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last.
Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you.
Ray Bradbury
#60. Bravery may be observed when a person tramples one fear whilst in secret flight from a greater terror. And those whose greatest terror is being thought a coward are always brave. I, on the other hand, am a coward.
Mark Lawrence
#61. Exercise is the most awful illusion. The secret is a lot of aspirin and marrons glaces.
Noel Coward
#62. I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward.
Margaret Atwood
#63. Hollywood is a place where some people lie on the beach and look up at the stars, whereas other people lie on the stars and look down at the beach.
Noel Coward
#64. We are fools when we love. I was terrified of losing her. I thought I saw her changing
I don't know if she really was, but I couldn't bear the uncertainty any longer. I ran toward the finish just like a coward runs toward the enemy and wins a medal. I wanted to get death over.
Graham Greene
#65. When I went to jail, reality hit so hard that it took my breath away, took my stance away, took my strength away. I was there buck naked, humiliated, sitting in my own crap and urine - this is a metaphor. My ego had run off. Your ego is the biggest coward.
Tim Allen
#66. He had seen so much of life, but even more of death. He had seen countless eras come and go and still he braved forward, forever alone. And here she was ready to give up after a few lousy years. She was a coward.
Michelle M. Pillow
#67. I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.
Namie Amuro
#68. My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
O. Henry
#69. Each of us has his cowardice. Each of us is afraid to lose, afraid to die. But hanging back is the way to remain a coward for life. The Way to find courage is to seek it on the field of conflict. And the sure way to victory is willingness to risk one's own life.
Mas Oyama
#70. I am willing to remain and play the man's game if there are not enough boats for more than the women and children. Tell my wife I played the game straight out and to the end. No woman shall be left aboard this ship because Ben Guggenheim is a coward.
Benjamin Guggenheim
#71. I would often be a coward, but for the shame of it.
Ralph Connor
#72. There's no need in both of us dying tonight. (Kiara) I took an oath to save every life I could. I'm not about to back out on it now. I might be a lot of things, but a coward has never been one of them. (Syn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#73. I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
E. M. Forster
#74. Aye, well," Murray replied, "but think. Say a man is a coward and hasna died well. Purgatory gives him a chance to prove his courage after all, no? And once he is proved a proper man, then the bridge is open to him, and he can pass through the clouds of terrible things unhindered to paradise.
Diana Gabaldon
#75. Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.
Euripides
#76. How was your flight? Well, aeronautically it was a great success. Socially, it left quite a bit to be desired.
Noel Coward
#77. Poison is a coward's weapon' the king complained. Ned had heard enough. 'You send hired knives to kill a fourteen-year-old girl and still quibble about honor?
George R R Martin
#78. I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.
Robert Capa
#79. The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.
Stanley Milgram
#80. Striking a woman was something weak men did; men with little moral fibre and no self-control. It was a coward's response to a situation. And
Steven A. McKay
#81. Live an adventurous life. Every adventure freshens your life anew, and you do not get bored. An adventurous person dies only once, but a coward dies thousands of times.
His Holiness Divas
#82. I don't do vague. If I want to call you a coward, I will bock at you in no uncertain terms.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#84. A coward dies many times. A brave man never tastes of death but once.
Richard Laymon
#85. To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures is. However, at this particular moment I cannot find so much to laugh at as I would like.
Noel Coward
#86. And that's why I finally ended it. I realized today that it's exhausting to be a coward.
Julie Buxbaum
#89. Really, monsieur, I should regard you as a coward, and a traitor too, if I did not, with greater justice, regard you as a madman.
Alexandre Dumas
#90. I was never a coward," he says irritably, struggling out of my grasp. "I was just sensible.
James Patterson
#91. Madame Bovary is the sexiest book imaginable. The woman's virtually a nyphomaniac but you won't find a vulgar word in the entire thing.
Noel Coward
#92. He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.
Stephen King
#93. 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
#95. A coward purposely performs poorly to blame others for their own failures.
Ben Tolosa
#96. What people would like is that a coward or a hero be born that way.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#97. A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Hariom Sisodia
#98. Too cowardly to be a warrior, but not enough of a coward to lie down and roll over like a good doggy.
David Mitchell
#99. I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
Noel Coward
#100. In the course of events, you do what you think is right and proper, and hold faith that such a course will lead to good ends. To believe less ... if this is what I truly hold in my heart and proclaim, then what a coward I would be to deny such a course out of fear, any fear,
R.A. Salvatore
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