Best 436 quotes in «coward quotes» category

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

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

Lack of conditioning will make a coward of us all.

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

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.

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)

Man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards.

Like all bullies, they’re cowards underneath the swagger

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

Margaret had always dreaded lest her courage should fail her in any emergency, and she should be proved to be, what she dreaded lest she was--a coward. But now, in this real great time of reasonable fear and nearness of terror, she forgot herself, and felt only an intense sympathy--intense to painfulness--in the interests of the moment.

Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

May the eyes of cowards never sleep

Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward!

Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.

Meriwether Lewis's last words were, 'I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind.

Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards!

Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.

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.

My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse.

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.

My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

Slander is the tool of cowards.

Obituaries are like near-death experiences for cowards.

Obedience is the greatest refuge of the weak and the coward people!

O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch! Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?

Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards!

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

Only cowards torture women.

Only cowards insult dying majesty.

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

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave, And only cowards dare affront a woman.

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.

Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward.

Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.

Poltroons, cowards, skulkers and dastards.

Reflection makes men cowards.

Riches make cowards of us.

Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.

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.

Sometimes I think I'm a nihilist because it doesn't matter, none of this matters. We're all following the will of some unknowable higher power, probably the stars manipulating our cellular magnets. We think we have all this agency, but do we? Do we really? Can you choose to be brave when you were born a coward? Can we be deprogrammed from the brainwashing that we grew up in? I think we can, but I think we need a lot of help.