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Quotes About Coward

Mr. Snowden is a coward who has chosen to run.
~ Chuck Schumer
He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.
~ Terry Pratchett
Well, the lion is a big ol' coward, mostly. If you want trouble, you want to tangle with the lioness. They're killers, and they hunt together. It's the same everywhere. If you want big grief, look to the ladies.
~ Terry Pratchett
That's weak! You don't know what caring is... Caring is love. And love fights! Love doesn't look for the path of least resistance. Hell's bells, Roderick, if love was that easy everyone would have it. You're a coward!
~ Karen Marie Moning
...Tea, although an Oriental, Is a gentleman at least; Cocoa is a cad and coward, Cocoa is a vulgar beast...
~ G. K. Chesterton
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?
~ bronte charlotte iii
A falsehood, which may be pardoned if it is to save another, is black sin if used by a coward to save himself.
~ buchan john iii
By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward. Aye
~ Herman Melville
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you'd run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!
~ Homer
Vain is your boast in that you have scratched the sole of my foot... A worthless coward can inflict but a light wound. When I wound a man, though I but graze his skin, it is another matter, for my weapon will lay him low. His wife will tear her cheeks out for grief and his children will be fatherless: there he will rot, reddening the earth with his blood, and vultures, not women, will gather round him.
~ Homer
Poor Andromache! Why does your heart sorrow so much for me? No man is going to hurl me to Hades, unless it is fated, but as for fate, I think no man has yet escaped it once it has taken its first form, neither brave man nor coward.
~ Homer
they will not be so foolish." "Men can be very foolish indeed," Laurence said, "and I must, I do, beg you not to enter into a resolution, which should prevent my being able to face death with equanimity. You should make me a coward, if I must fear that my death should turn you against my country." "But I do not at all want you to face death with equanimity
~ Naomi Novik
Like all his kind and all other bullies, von Schoenvorts was a coward at heart.
~ burroughs edgar rice ii
Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.
~ Suzanne Collins
What used to be described as a thoughtless act of aggression was now regarded as the courage one would expect to find in a party member; to think of the future and wait was merely another way of saying one was a coward; any idea of moderation was just an attempt to disguise one's unmanly character; ability to understand a question from all sides meant that one was totally unfitted for action.
~ Thucydides
Silence is unacceptable in the face of injustice, and being neutral is being a coward and an accomplice to the evil sides of our history.
~ Kevin Powell
Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
~ George W. Bush
He absolutely was a coward. A weak coward whose dead had not been avenged, who had no voice, and whose body was nothing even a ten-year-old would envy.
~ J.R. Ward
I love watching 'UFC' - Ultimate Fighting Championship - I don't know why, because I'm more of a coward than a fighter, but I seem to be very drawn to these blokes actually smashing each other to bits.
~ Marc Warren
I know I said that I always choose the anticlimactic over the irrevocable, and yes of course what I meant was that I have always been a coward, but I lied: not always, there was that night, there was that one time.
~ Tana French
The fear of God makes a hero; the fear of man makes a coward.
~ Alvin C. York
The sot drinks, and is drunken: the coward drinks not, and shivers: the wise man, brave and free, drinks, and gives glory to the Most High God.
~ Aleister Crowley
There can be no failure if there really is a Plan. Defeated you may be, but never through any fault of your own. To bow to a cosmic will is no shame. You are not a coward; you are a martyr.
~ Umberto Eco
I'm really a peaceful sort of coward.
~ L.A. Meyer