Top 100 Coward Quotes
#1. The coward never on himself relies, But to an equal for assistance flies.
George Crabbe
#2. No, Bailey, you're not a coward, but you're constantly worried that you are. You're a champion
worrier. And a woman, I think, who gives herself very little credit for her strengths, and has very little
tolerance for her weaknesses. Self-judgmental.
Nora Roberts
#3. 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
#4. The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco
#5. Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.
Emmanuel Jal
#6. A coward dies a thousand deaths ... a soldier dies but once.
J.M. Darhower
#7. Since cowardice must occur at a time and place where an enemy either has already appeared or may yet turn up, servicemen in peacetime - and ordinary civilians - can breathe a sigh of relief. If you are yellow-bellied back home, you're not technically a coward.
Charles Duhigg
#8. Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit.
Stefan Zweig
#9. That's the funny thing about guns; even untrained hands can feel powerful using them. But take that gun away and you're left with nothing but a coward whose only skill is how to blindly pull a trigger.
Jennifer Wilson
#10. It's time to take a deep breath and sink into the love and goodness that scares the ever-living hell out of me. I have to make my life count for something, or I'll be treading through this pain like a coward until I drop.
Steph Campbell
#11. They're great devotees of Noel Coward in England, of course, he's a favorite son, and so to play Coward in London is such fun, and anyway, the role is such a crazy lady. I just love doing that.
Angela Lansbury
#12. Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from the Americans.
John Lahr
#13. The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.
Bob Marley
#14. I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
Lord Chesterfield
#16. She looked at the door, and wondered if they meant it. Could she leave now? "We've no cowards among us," the man said. "Good." Teia wanted to shout, Wait! I think I might be a coward! Can I think on it a bit longer?
Brent Weeks
#17. What coward would not fight when he is sure of victory?
Richard Sibbes
#18. And yet, something inside you is so horrible or you're such a coward or whatever the reason that you decide that you have to end it. Robin Williams, at 63, did that today.
Shepard Smith
#19. Count Drake had told him that life was precious, that suicide was a coward's way out, a sin against the God by flinging his gift back in his holy face.
Brent Weeks
#20. Behold the rich farm boy Malachy Burns
Who plays his pipe among the churns.
He's a coward, he's benighted,
He makes everyone feel slighted,
And all things but music he spurns.
Julia Glass
#21. And a respectable man must be a coward and a slave not only at the present time, owing to some accidental circumstances, but generally in all periods of time. That's a law of nature for all respectable people on earth.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#22. I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.
Ouida
#23. Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is - nor yet so good a Christian.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#24. A coward with a gun is the most dangerous person in the world
Toni Morrison
#25. If you can only feel safe when everybody else feels, thinks and looks the same as you, then you're a Hood-damned coward ... not to mention a vicious tyrant in the making.
Steven Erikson
#26. Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#27. The opposite of a coward is one who knows and does the right thing at the right time even if it may cost them their own life.
Joseph Skinner
#28. It is bad to love life if one loves it like a coward.
Jean Guehenno
#29. Peace without Justice is a low estate,- A coward cringing to an iron Fate! But Peace through Justice is the great ideal,- We'll pay the price of war to make it real.
Henry Van Dyke
#30. Actually, I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say, and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise.
Murong Xuecun
#31. He's got courage," Alex said.
"Courage!" Raoul bellowed. "That coward almost kills him and--
Tamora Pierce
#32. Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.
James Russell Lowell
#33. Father, I want to know Thee, but my coward heart fears to give up its toys.
A.W. Tozer
#34. They're always like, 'Would my character really do this or really do that?' And I'm like, 'Who gives a shit? Just make them do it, you coward. Don't be so passive.' You and I, we're in charge of what we can do and what we can't do.
Matthew Norman
#35. It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. - Noel Coward
Jinx Schwartz
#36. But to die to escape from poverty or love or anything painful is not the mark of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is softness to fly from what is troublesome,
David Ross
#37. The coward's fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in others' lives stands in the way of his developing any inner resources sufficient to overcome the terror of death. - J. Glenn Gary, The Warriors
Sebastian Junger
#38. The most coward person is the one who uses religion to win an argument.
Asma Naqi
#39. Sometimes one act of bravery is better than a life lived as a coward.
-Mukta
Amita Trasi
#40. If you are courageous, listen to the heart. If you are a coward, listen to the head.
Rajneesh
#41. He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man faces when he's about to make his own name famous. He lacked both a hero's calm and a coward's resolve to survive at any price.
Walter Hill
#42. Any coward can instill fear. It's easy to scare people, but having the strength to make them feel safe? Now that's power.
Nick Shamhart
#43. You see, the problem with being a bully is that on the flipside of that particular coin, you'll find the imprint of a coward.
Jeffrey Archer
#44. You're strong Nakahira-san. Someone who hits first does so because he's afraid of being hit. I'm a weakling and a coward, so I strike first. And when I strike, I kill.
Yun Kouga
#45. One cannot take a coward on dangerous missions or trust one's fortune to a fool. How then are cowards and fools to be employed?
Donald Kingsbury
#46. At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But I don't want to kill or be killed.
Klaus Kinski
#47. A coward,' he declared with dignity, when he'd stopped coughing and had got his breath back, 'dies a hundred times. A brave man dies but once. But Dame Fortune favours the brave and holds the coward in contempt.'
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Dandelion
Andrzej Sapkowski
#49. They thought he was scared all the time because he was a coward. The truth was, only he could see the world clearly enough to know how truly scary it was.
Simon R. Green
#50. You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.
Kate Bosworth
#51. Lack of conditioning will make a coward of us all.
Dominick Cruz
#52. Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.
Rabindranath Tagore
#54. Running was not always the coward's route; it was a matter of survival. The fewer violent encounters one invited, the longer the life.
Marjorie M. Liu
#55. Thinking without acting makes you a coward. Acting without thinking makes you insane. You need both the thoughts and actions; they never walk alone!
Israelmore Ayivor
#56. Better a live coward than a dead hero, I've always believed. Sure people will still sing about dead heroes from time to time, but aside from that they get little attention. Unless they manage to get a holiday named after them. Even then, it's not like they get to enjoy the day off.
Bill Allen
#57. Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.
Andrew Taylor Still
#58. Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.
Ray Bradbury
#59. One more thing: Philippe, you are not a coward-so what I want to hear from you is the ecstatic truth about the twin towers.
Werner Herzog
#60. Devil, cease; and do not poison the air with these sounds of malice. I have declared my resolution to you, and I am no coward to bend beneath words. Leave me; I am inexorable.
Mary Shelley
#61. The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty.
Publilius Syrus
#62. A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Thomas Jefferson
#63. The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
George Sewell
#64. Welcome to Dauntless! Where you either face your fears and try not to die in the process or you leave a coward
Veronica Roth
#65. The mark of the coward is that he attacks the defenseless.
Marty Rubin
#66. A brave heart doesn't pump coward's blood.
Toba Beta
#67. Whatever will happen will happen. You either face it as a coward or you face it as a hero.
O.R. Melling
#68. Somebody who should have been born
is gone.
Yes, woman, such logic will lead
to loss without death. Or say what you meant,
you coward ... this baby that I bleed.
Anne Sexton
#69. Revenge is the sweetest way to say you are a coward to face your enemies without hurting them
When you find revenge in your heart do this for yourself
'Pray and let go of the anger within
Sonny Cele
#70. The fanatic emphasis on 'Plan B' that professionals talk about is not a coward's fall-back system. It serves a purpose, a purpose that a strategist has envisioned and planned before the need for an alternate solution surfaces.
Andy Paula
#71. You're not a coward just because you don't want to hurt people,
Anonymous
#72. Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese.
Terry Pratchett
#74. So I lied to you last night. I said I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you. And that's why I have to slip out of your window now, like a coward. Because if I had to tell you this yo your face, I couldn't make myself go.
Cassandra Clare
#75. A moral coward is one who is afraid to do what he thinks is right because others will disapprove or laugh. Remember that all men have their fears, but those who face their fears with dignity have courage as well.
Thomas S. Monson
#76. He wondered what a coward did in his position and if it was the same thing he was doing now.
Claire Zorn
#77. You're naught but a human man. You couldn't possibly understand."
He lifted a brow, still smiling. "Liar."
"Cutpurse."
"Runaway."
"Swindler!
"Coward," he said softly, and she jerked back.
"Bastard!"
"Undoubtedly true." He made a short bow.
Shana Abe
#78. Basically, it comes down do this: You can live life as a cripple or a coward. What happens now is up to you.
Joe Hill
#80. Ours is not the creed of the weakling and the coward; ours is the gospel of hope and triumphant endeavor." Theodore Roosevelt
Ryan Stallings
#81. Everybody has fear. The difference is that the coward does not control fear and the brave ... gets over it.
Rickson Gracie
#83. Come back again, old heart! Ah me! Methinks in those thy coward fears There might, perchance, a courage be, That fails in these the manlier years; Courage to let the courage sink, Itself a coward base to think, Rather than not for heavenly light Wait on to show the truly right.
Arthur Hugh Clough
#84. President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.
Kevin Costner
#85. Do you think I'll let it go, that I'll hide from it because you, who's anything but a coward, is afraid of what ifs?
Nora Roberts
#86. Ah, you coward! Look at you, running." "Actually, it's called improvising.
Jonathan Stroud
#87. You cannot be brave if you do not have a coward inside you.
Deepak Chopra
#89. Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.
Mark Twain
#90. No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward
Aesop
#92. He fought her the way a coward fights a man--with feet, the palms of his hands, and teeth.
Toni Morrison
#93. Since Jeannie is a big believer in attachment parenting and I'm a spineless coward, we have instituted an open-door policy, meaning if one of our kids has a nightmare, they are welcome to come in our room and pee in our bed. Luckily this only happens every night.
Jim Gaffigan
#94. The word "fronting" was important to Rob. A coward who acted tough was fronting. A nerd who acted dumb was fronting. A rich kid who acted poor was fronting. Rob found the instinct very offensive, and in college he saw it all around.
Jeff Hobbs
#95. I'd forgotten so many important things. I'd stolen away my own past. It made me feel like a coward.
Suzanne Palmieri
#96. Mr. Vesey, though, he didn't like any kind of talk about heaven. He said that was the coward's way, pining for life in the hereafter, acting like this one didn't mean a thing. I had to side with him on that.
Sue Monk Kidd
#97. O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch!
Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?
William Shakespeare
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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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