Coward Quotes - Page 13
1678 All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 5.
There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.
Ivy Compton-Burnett (1972). “The last and the first”
There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”
Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Song Of Right And Wrong”
"Charles Dickens: A Critical Study". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1906.
That all men would be cowards if they dare, Some men we know have courage to declare.
George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.155
"John Bull's Other Island". Book by George Bernard Shaw (Preface), November 1, 1904.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.51, Penguin
Indian believes they ain't but two sins... bein a coward... and turnin agin yer own kind.
Forrest Carter (1989). “Josey Wales: Two Westerns”, p.120, UNM Press
Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.
"Meleager". Play by Euripides, 418 BCE.
Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
Ellis Peters (2014). “Dead Man's Ransom”, p.8, Head of Zeus
By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism
David Gemmell (2011). “Legend”, p.33, Hachette UK
Cees Nooteboom (2013). “Rituals”, p.38, Hachette UK
C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.28, Faber & Faber
Bram Stoker (2015). “Dracula: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.50, 谷月社