Best 436 quotes in «coward quotes» category

I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known great ministers, distinguished for wit and learning, who preferred none but dunces. I have known men of valor cowards to their wives. I have known men of cunning perpetually cheated. I knew three ministers who would exactly compute and settle the accounts of a kingdom, wholly ignorant of their own economy.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.

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.

I look upon those who would deny others the right to urge and argue their position, however irksome and pernicious they may seem, as intellectual and moral cowards.

I'm a complete coward in real life.

I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.

I’m a coward, I close my eyes. I don’t understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off.

I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.

I'm a coward, I didn't want to die.

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

I'm a hero wid coward's legs, I'm a hero from the waist up.

I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. That's not me.

I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.

I must confess that I've never trusted the Web. I've always seen it as a coward's tool. Where does it live? How do you hold it personally responsible? Can you put a distributed network of fiber-optic cable "on notice"? And is it male or female? In other words, can I challenge it to a fight?

Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.

In [Philip] Howard's view, our reliance on law, lawyers, and lawsuits has turned Americans into fat, neurotic cowards who 'go through the day looking over their shoulder instead of where they want to go.'

Indian believes they ain't but two sins... bein a coward... and turnin agin yer own kind.

Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

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.

In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God and no future state, yet even then it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward.

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

I think I am more of a coward than anybody. It's a very weird feeling. The more I fear violence, the more I'm inclined to depict it in films.

I think that for the coward every day carries a kind of death.

It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

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

It is the act of a coward to wish for death.

It is the hero alone, not the coward, who has liberation within his easy reach.

It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards. Were all brave, they would lead a very uneasy life; all would be continually fighting; but being all cowards, we go on very well.

It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more calamity.

It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back... Watch out against the terrorism of gossip!

I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.

I've rarely gotten a good review in my life, yet, to paraphrase Noel Coward, I am happy to console myself with the bitter palliative of commercial success.

[I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is afraid or merely because he lacks the instruments of violence, he is not truly nonviolent. This is why Gandhi often said that if cowardice is the only alternative to violence, it is better to fight.

I touch my scar to remind myself that I am not a coward. I am a Quinn.

It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.

It was the cowards who died many times before their death.

I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.

I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.

I would often be a coward, but for the shame of it.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Let him go, Julian. His entire body isn’t worth one molecule of yours. (Grace) (To Paul) Where I come from, we butchered worthless cowards like you just for practice. (Julian)

Like all bullies, they’re cowards underneath the swagger

Lack of conditioning will make a coward of us all.