Quotes About A Cowardly Man

#1. It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

Franz Grillparzer

#2. I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. And it was cowardly for a man to say he would kill himself, but Septimus had fought; he was brave; he was not Septimus now

Virginia Woolf

#4. Every act of courage is the work of an unbalanced man. Animals, normal by definition, are always cowardly except when they know themselves know themselves to be stronger, which is cowardice itself.

Emil Cioran

#5. What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States.

H.L. Mencken

#6. There is a killer in every cowardly man, waiting for the right set of circumstances when the time has been drained of the possibility of reprisals and he feels free to act.

M.D. Lachlan

#7. No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. Occult Theft,
Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,
corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre of them. And the guilty Thieves of Europe, the real sources of all deadly war in it, are the Capitalists

John Ruskin

#9. And if you don't accept my challenge," shouted the Iron Man, "then you're a miserable cowardly reptile, not fit to bother with.

Ted Hughes

#10. People try to say suicide is the most cowardly act a man could ever commit. I don't think that's true at all. What's cowardly is treating a man so badly that he wants to commit suicide.

Tommy Tran

#11. To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.

Victoria Woodhull

#12. Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether is cowardly avoidance of a difficult job. For we have to learn the art of enjoying things BECAUSE they are impermanent.

Alan Watts

#14. Esther was more man than most men I know, myself included. Many of us - men and women - are extremely passive and cowardly. We don't take risks for God because we are obsessed with safety, security, and most of all, with the future.

Kevin DeYoung

#15. There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.

Lafcadio Hearn

#16. When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

Oswald Chambers

#17. Kat moaned that I'd plowed my way in here, why couldn't I plow us back out. I made a sick joke about the only kind of plowing I wanted to do was into her.

Adriane Leigh

#18. As animals go, even in so limited a space as our world, man is botched and ridiculous. Few other brutes are so stupid, so docile or so cowardly.

H.L. Mencken

#19. A coward is a man who'd rather live dead than die alive

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#20. 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,

#21. The American press is a shame and a reproach to a civilized people. When a man is too lazy to work and too cowardly to steal, he becomes an editor and manufactures public opinion.

William T. Sherman

#22. My tongue is what I used instead of my fists because I was a small and cowardly young man. Amusing people with stories and being bizarre with words was my way of getting out of fixes.

Jim Crace

#23. Cry for cut n stiches nt for bastard n bitches...
I may b slow walker but i never walk bachward
cowardly man bark loudest...

Britt Gettys

#24. We are fighting for the distinction between sacrifice and mysticism, between energy and violence, between strength and cruelty, for that even finer distinction between the true and the false, between the man of the future and the cowardly gods you revere.

Albert Camus

#25. Risk management seemed to have completed its transformation into pure entertainment. Dudley seemed the epitome of a risk manager who would drown crossing a river that was 12 inches in depth on average.

Satyajit Das

#26. Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly hero. Most writers spend their lives writing about unexpected malice in the supposedly virtuous, and unexpected virtue in the supposedly sinful.

Thomas Keneally

#27. The contemporary Matthew Paris wrote that, 'foul as it is, hell itself is defiled by the foulness of King John'. A bard sang that 'no man may ever trust him, for his heart is soft and cowardly'. Yet this evil was catalyst for a greater good, Magna Carta.

Simon Jenkins

#28. We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.

Charles Horton Cooley

#29. A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and
ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy
mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax
cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

John Steinbeck

#30. A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

Elbert Hubbard

#31. Growing up, I was such a picky eater. I'm finally starting to expand.

Mike Trout

#32. The man is too narcissistic, too shallow and cowardly for suicide. Days

Joyce Carol Oates

#33. Oh he was like them, like those laced-up ladies - warm from wards. A man, he still chewed the nipple, titillation, and risked no freer, deeper draught. Fearless in speech, he was cowardly in all else ... ah, to be rich, luxuriant, episcopal ... well, he'd conquered that by flight.

William H Gass

#34. A thoughtful and well-informed consideration of US government in relation to American society.

Ian Harris