Coward Quotes - Page 16

For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.

Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.

At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But I don't want to kill or be killed.

Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.

Dreaming the dream of God is not for Cowards.

He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.

If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.

Heroes and cowards feel the same fear and action creates opportunities.

Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.

Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

Poltroons, cowards, skulkers and dastards.

When cowardice becomes a fashion its adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot.

To act without knowledge is folly, to know without acting is cowardice.

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.

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

There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.

Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.

I feel like we are so much more comfortable sweeping things under the rug and putting on a brave face, and to me, sweeping under the rug is a coward move, not a brave move at all. I want to get out there and have a conversation.

Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.

Cowards die many times; a brave man dies but once.

Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct.

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