Only A Coward Quotes

#1. Reveal yourself, mage! Only a coward stays cloaked in invisibility.

Kristen Britain

#2. Only a coward carries a gun, a brave person never needs a gun.

M.F. Moonzajer

#3. Only a coward captures men the way you did."
"A coward? Or a pragmatist?

Sarah J. Maas

#4. He said it to Laurent. Laurent said that from this moment on, any Veretian who struck an Akielon would be executed. He trusted the honour of the Akielons, he said. Only a coward hit a man who wasn't allowed to hit back. It

C.S. Pacat

#5. Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.

Emmanuel Jal

#6. There's no honor in that. Only a coward would kill her that way; I want everything she has. I want her to want to fight with every breath of her body. Mechelle Tortured Soul

Kyra Gates

#7. Only a coward would send his children to their deaths in order to save his own life.

Lynn Austin

#8. You have to keep your vision clear, cause only a coward lives in fear.

Nas

#9. They're so brave," she said.
"They're all dead."
"Only a coward would think of that," she said scornfully.

Orson Scott Card

#10. Maybe the knowledge is too great and maybe men are growing too small. Maybe a specialist is only a coward, afraid to look out of his little cage. And think what any specialist misses - the whole world over his fence.

John Steinbeck

#11. Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. Any man who is afraid to have his doctrine investigated is not only a coward but a hypocrite.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Actually, I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say, and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise.

Murong Xuecun

#15. 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

#16. Sunburn is very becoming - but only when it is even - one must be careful not to look like a mixed grill.

Noel Coward

#17. The only faults considered grave are the following: not respecting the rights of one's neighbor, letting oneself be paralyzed by fear, feeling guilty, thinking one does not deserve the good and bad which occurs in life, and being a coward.

Paulo Coelho

#18. If you only stand up for speech you approve of, you're a hack. If you only stand up for speech that everyone approves of, you're a coward.

Glenn Reynolds

#19. 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

#20. Are there anything more dishonourable and more coward than not marching in front of the army after taking the decision of war as a politician? Sending others for dying but keeping himself in safety is the affair of the low man only!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#21. A lesson for you, Mr. Grim: Intending an action and doing it are far from the same thing. Until you are right there, with the choice in front of you, you can only guess what you might do, and what your character might be. Are you hero or coward? Often you will guess wrong.

Violet Haberdasher

#22. Frighted Jonah trembles, and summoning all his boldness to his face, only looks so much the more a coward.

Herman Melville

#23. 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

#24. It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. I perceived now that there is a love deeper than theirs who seek only the happiness of their beloved. Would a father see his daughter happy as a whore? Would a woman see her lover happy as a coward?

C.S. Lewis

#29. I sat there afraid that I might discover that the world around me is not real. then i thought: wait. i need fear that only if its true, and if it is, i must consider that while this may be bad, worse than that is living in a world that is only real because i am a coward.

Philip K. Jason

#30. Talking behind someones back does not make you better. It only demonstrates how much of a coward you are for not saying it in the persons face.

Unknown

#31. Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

David Seabury

#32. The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean ... Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.

Truman Capote

#33. A coward may die many times, but a brave man dies only once. If I die for you, I won't consider it death but love.

Hani

#34. I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

Noel Coward

#35. I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

Ernesto Che Guevara

#36. There is no shame in what happened to you. There is only shame in being too much of a coward to carry on. In not realizing that what happened to you is not you. What happened is not the same as who you are.

Morgan Rice

#37. Whatever happened after, even the loss, my life would be less if I had not had that. On the day I die, my only regret would be if I hadn't had it. If I had been too much a coward to take it while I had a chance.

Amelia C. Gormley

#38. A coward can die many times, but love can only die once.

Kim Hyun-joong

#39. 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

#40. Couldn't you see that all my flippancy was only a mask, hiding my real emotions
crushing them down desperately!

Noel Coward

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. The love between man and woman is a voluntary pact in which the one who falls short is only guilty of perfidy, but when a woman has become a mother her duty is greater because nature has entrusted the human species to her. If she fails then she is a coward, unworthy and infamous.

Guy De Maupassant

#44. If you are strong, and you are fighting the weak for any period of time, you are going to become weak yourself. If you behave like a coward, then you are going to become cowardly - it's only a question of time.

Martin Van Creveld

#45. You, sir, are not only a selfish asshole, but you're a coward. You didn't have the balls to stand and fight for what was yours, instead you chose to flee and force others into a fight that wasn't even theirs to begin with.

Rose Wynters

#46. He put his hand over hers. "Am I a coward?"
"Because you are afraid? No. Only fools are never afraid.

Sherry Thomas

#47. Fifty-four years of love and tenderness and crossness and devotion and unswerving loyalty. Without her I could have achieved a quarter of what I have achieved, not only in terms of success and career, but in terms of personal happiness.

Noel Coward

#48. You're no hero. You're a coward. You only saved them from yourself.

Jennifer Niven

#49. 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

#50. I wouldn't call myself a coward, no way. But being buried alive is something I could never handle. The only way you'd see me being buried alive is if I was dead, man.

Usher

#51. By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward. Aye,

Herman Melville

#52. A man should know about himself two or three things: whether he is a coward; whether he is an honest man or given to lies; whether he is an ambitious man. One should define oneself first of all in those terms, and only then in terms of culture, race, creed.

Joseph Brodsky

#53. The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

Pat Conroy

#54. If you listen to only one side of the story, you are simply a coward.

Ben Tolosa

#55. The law of honor: Go along only on the paths of honor. Fight, and never be a coward. Leave the path of infamy to others. Better to fall in an honorable fight than win by infamy.

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

#56. Only the brave know how to forgive ... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Laurence Sterne

#57. There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray.

James Lipton

#58. It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are notnecessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.

Sallust

#59. The Coward will run away from danger, only to strike in the dark. The Heroine will run through the dark, even though she knows the coward is waiting to strike.

David A. Cleinman

#60. A coward dies every day,
the courageous dies only once.

Anonymous

#61. So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?"
"Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!

Diana Wynne Jones