Top 100 Coward Coward Quotes
#1. Frost interviewing Noel Coward and Margaret Mead. Sir Noel's view of life is Sir Noel. Mead's mind is large and open, like Buckminster Fuller's. She found thoughts dull that suggest that men are superior to animals or plants.
John Cage
#2. I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.
Swami Vivekananda
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#12. 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
#13. Now must we sing and sing the best we can,
But first you must be told your character:
Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.
William Butler Yeats
#14. Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
Ambrose Bierce
#15. 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
#16. 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
#19. I don't do vague. If I want to call you a coward, I will bock at you in no uncertain terms.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#21. And that's why I finally ended it. I realized today that it's exhausting to be a coward.
Julie Buxbaum
#23. 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
#24. I was never a coward," he says irritably, struggling out of my grasp. "I was just sensible.
James Patterson
#25. I'll be no longer guilty of this sin; this sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh, -
William Shakespeare
#26. 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
#27. A coward purposely performs poorly to blame others for their own failures.
Ben Tolosa
#28. Too cowardly to be a warrior, but not enough of a coward to lie down and roll over like a good doggy.
David Mitchell
#29. The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor
Margaret Mitchell
#30. 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
#31. The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.
James F. Cooper
#32. Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of fear like a coward and a base man. Are you anxious that your faith be professed by cowards and base people?
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#33. Can't be lucky if you's a coward," my mother had always said.
Anonymous
#34. I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#35. To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.
Aristotle.
#36. Reveal yourself, mage! Only a coward stays cloaked in invisibility.
Kristen Britain
#39. Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity.
Criss Jami
#40. He put his hand over hers. "Am I a coward?"
"Because you are afraid? No. Only fools are never afraid.
Sherry Thomas
#41. But focus always on your shame, and your shame will eat you. It will become you. That is the coward's way. A coward never has to learn.
Marjorie M. Liu
#42. I've thought of killing myself so many times. I don't do it, not because I am a coward, but because it would be easier for me to be dead. What's my life? I make money and I make memories. That's not a life. I don't kill myself because living is my own life sentence.
Jeanette Winterson
#43. They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, and this is often derived from a sort of frenzy by way of their own masked prejudice.
Criss Jami
#44. I touch my scar to remind myself that I am not a coward. I am a Quinn.
Delores Phillips
#45. The difference between the hero and the coward is that the hero sticks in there five minutes longer
Brian Tracy
#46. The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.
Gene Hackman
#47. The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.
Ozzy Osbourne
#48. The thing is ... I was a very proud girl. I never wanted to take the chance I might get hurt. Isn't that funny? I was game for any exciting adventure that came my way, but when it came to risking my heart, I was a coward.
Nicole Christie
#50. Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth
the cowards!
Joaquin Miller
#52. A coward is a servant of his fears.
A hero enslaves his fears.
Lera Auerbach
#54. I say to Floyd Mayweather Jr., don't be a coward and face me in the ring, mano a mano, and shut your big, pretty mouth so we can show the world who is the true king of the ring,
Manny Pacquiao
#55. The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#57. The coward believes he will live forever
If he holds back in the battle,
But in old age he shall have no peace
Though spears have spared his limbs.
Havamal - The Sayings Of The High One
#58. No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
Homer
#59. Fear was stronger than ethics, stronger than judgement, stronger than responsibility, stronger than civilisation. Fear was a bolting animal trampling children underfoot as it fled from itself. Fear was a bigot, a tyrant, a coward, a red mist, a whore. Fear was a bullet pointed at his heart.
Salman Rushdie
#60. It was time to stand up for herself and move forward, not cower in submission as other people made bad decisions for her.
Angie Stanton
#61. Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something of a coward.
Orlando Figes
#62. There is no such consolation to a born coward as a logical reason for not doing what he is afraid to do
Francis Marion Crawford
#63. The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.
Pat Conroy
#64. Where courage and judgement are equally required a clever coward is better than a stupid hero.
Michael Collins
#65. A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#66. A coward can forgive himself anything given the right excuse,
Mark Lawrence
#67. Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.
William Shakespeare
#68. And the fuck is yours too, WTF. That question does not apply 'to everything every day.' If it does, you're wasting your life. If it does, you're a lazy coward and you are not a lazy coward.
Ask better questions, sweet pea. The fuck is your life. Answer it.
Cheryl Strayed
#69. A coward: a man or woman who is unsatisfied by his condition and believes he was destined to accept it that way
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#70. There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
Henry Ward Beecher
#71. They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.
Neal Shusterman
#72. Don't be a coward, driving away anyone who cares enough to see you for yerself. It's easy to live yer life alone, son. It takes courage to live with another. But in the end, yer life can be so much richer for it
Sabrina Jeffries
#73. I'm a hero wid coward's legs, I'm a hero from the waist up.
Spike Milligan
#75. Your girlfriend is a narcissistic bitch, and you're an indecisive coward. Congrats on creating a little human that's perfect.
Tarryn Fisher
#76. The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#77. ( ... ) then went into his room in the middle of the night after a long, heavy day of footwork and drinking; a coward's fight. She'd trussed him up and cut off his cock. She considered the act her formal resignation.
Kameron Hurley
#78. All the learn'd are cowards by profession.
John Dryden
#80. A gun is a coward's weapon. A liar's weapon.We kill.. too often.. because we've made it easy.. too easy.. sparing ourselves the mess.. and the work..
Frank Miller
#81. In the beginning there is not much difference between the coward and the courageous person. The only difference is, the coward listens to his fears and follows them, and the courageous person puts them aside and goes ahead. The courageous person goes into the unknown in spite of all the fears.
Osho
#82. They say no such things," his wife replied. "No one thinks you are a coward." "I can hear them," he said. "It is your own voice you are hearing, husband," she said.
Khaled Hosseini
#83. Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#84. You know what you are, Mr. Vail?"
"In a hurry?" he answered.
"A coward.
Devon Monk
#85. Coward," Pablo said bitterly. "You treat a man as coward because he has a tactical sense. Because he can see the results of an idiocy in advance. It is not cowardly to know what is foolish." "Neither is it foolish to know what is cowardly," said Anselmo, unable to resist making the phrase.
Ernest Hemingway,
#86. Only a coward would send his children to their deaths in order to save his own life.
Lynn Austin
#87. Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct.
William Shakespeare
#88. There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards, but because they are men.
Ludwig Lewisohn
#90. A thousand times a coward and not once a dead man
Suad Amiry
#91. I hate it when people repeat the last thing that's been said to them because they're too afraid to ask what the other person meant by it. "You want to remember this moment," I said finally, because when it comes right down to it, I'm a coward.
Dale Peck
#92. I will tell you something my father once told me. The difference between a brave man and a coward is very simple. It is a problem of love. A coward loves only himself ... The brave man loves other men first and himself last. (From Meyer's The Son)
Phillipp Meyer
#93. I'd forgotten so many important things. I'd stolen away my own past. It made me feel like a coward.
Suzanne Palmieri
#95. I know I said that I always choose the anticlimactic over the irrevocable, and yes of course what I meant was that I have always been a coward, but I lied: not always, there was that night, there was that one time.
Tana French
#96. Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero.
Swami Vivekananda
#97. The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask.
Criss Jami
#98. DON'T - " screamed Snape, and his face was suddenly demented, inhuman, as though he was in as much pain as the yelping, howling dog stuck in the burning house behind them - "CALL ME COWARD!
J.K. Rowling
#99. Death is the fate no one can escape. The question, then, is, How does one die? A person can die like a hero or like a coward. The difference is that the hero can face death without fear, whereas the coward can't.
Alexander Lowen
#100. God hates a coward."
I don't actually believe this is true. But it's something to aim for.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
