Coward Quotations

I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.

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

I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.

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

This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards

I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else.

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

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 am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.

Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.

You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

If I'm scared and I'm a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?

Mr. Snowden is a coward who has chosen to run.

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.

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

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

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

I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.

Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

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

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.

I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?

Courage is the goal of cowards.

A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.

When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

You cannot be brave if you do not have a coward inside you.

Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.

So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?" "Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!

You do need an outlet to release all of those fears. You build it up and then, when you go to a movie theater, it's the last place that it's socially acceptable to be terrified. It's saying that, for the next 90 minutes, you're allowed to be afraid and you're not a coward for feeling that way.

When it comes to betting on yourself... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

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

Haters are cowards. When confronted they often back down. We must resist haters.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

The truth was, Azoth hated Azoth. Azoth was a coward, passive, weak, afraid, disloyal. Azoth had hesitated. Master Blint didn’t know it, but the poisons on the needle had killed Azoth. He was Kylar now, and Kylar would be everything Azoth hadn’t dared to be.

I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.

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.

When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.

I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.

She fought back very hard. That was very obvious from the scene. I saw the wounds to the head that killed her and the rest just looked like a fight that she might have even been winning. That coward needed a weapon to beat her ... It just looked like a crime scene photo I've seen over and over.

No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere; I see Heaven's glories shine, And, Faith shines equal, arming me from Fear

One definition of a coward is simply, someone who makes a lot of excuses. Most of us have enough excuses to last a lifetime. The sooner we let go of them and get on with living, the better off we are.

Only a Coward Would Stand Up for a Child Molester!

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.

Standing together, we won't let a coward like this disrupt our way of life.

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.

If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.

No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward

Only cowards insult dying majesty.

Coward is the most misused word in our society.

What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!

You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.

If you don't make a few ememies now and then, you're a coward-or worse. Besides, it as worth it to see his reaction. Oh, he was angry! - Angela to Eragon

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.

He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because fo other mens's opinions.

He that opposes his own judgment against the consent of the times ought to be backed with unanswerable truths; and he that has truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because of other men's opinions.

He who fears fate lives like a coward

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

By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

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

This week a group of activists, known as Anonymous, hacked the Twitter account of the KKK. The KKK is furious. They said Anonymous is just a bunch of cowards who don't have the courage to show their faces.

Nearly every man is a coward, if confronted by the proper terror.

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

Thou art a cat, and rat, and a coward to boot.

You're a coward if you don't stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.

We think that the character is actually modeled after Noel Coward himself. It's a play about a very witty man leading his life in the theater.

Even the youngest of us will know, in fifty years' time, exactly what we mean by 'a very Noel Coward sort of person'.

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Fatigue will make a coward of all of us and I'm not going to let that be an excuse. The bottom line is they played better than us for four quarters.

I've been called an alcoholic, I've been called a drunk. I've been called a coward for not playing because I was hurt ... Anything possible pretty much that y'all can say bad about me has been said.

The words of fire that from his penWere flung upon the fervid page,Still move, still shake the hearts of men,Amid a cold and coward age.

The words of fire that from his pen Were flung upon the fervid page, Still move, still shake the hearts of men, Amid a cold and coward age.