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Cowardice Quotes - Page 6

Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.

Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.

J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”, p.17, Pottermore

For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.

Margrit Hahnloser-Ingold, Henri Matisse (1987). “Matisse, the graphic work”, Rizzoli International Publications

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.

Charles Lamb (1867). “The essays of Elia. [Followed by] The last essays of Elia”, p.219

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.34

Alec would have said he could have benefited from a bit more in the way of constructive cowardice.

Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.545, Simon and Schuster

We are too ready (women especially) not to stand by what we have said or done.

Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

Survival feels like cowardice.

Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.17, Penguin

That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me.

Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.51, Open Road Media