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Quotes About Coward

Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from the Americans.
~ lahr john
As I set my foot upon the path leading to that little brown house, I felt like an impostor. Surely, I had no business here. This was the house of another man. A man I remembered. A person of moral certainty, and some measure of wisdom, whom many called courageous. How could I masquerade as such a one? For I was a fool, a coward, uncertain of everything.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Perhaps he is a fool and a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
~ James Baldwin
Perhaps he is a fool and a coward but almost everybody is one of the other and most people are both.
~ James Baldwin
Perhaps he is a fool or a coward, but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
~ James Baldwin
Me never believe in marriage that muchmarriage is a trap to control me; woman is a coward. Man strong.
~ Bob Marley
Alas! For shame," said Sir Launcelot, "that ever one knight should betray another! But it is an old saw, a good man is never in danger, but when he is in danger of a coward.
~ Thomas Bulfinch
The color orange is both a quality of an orange and an inescapable description of it. If we find an object, however, that looks like an orange but is brown, it must either be an orange that has gone bad or it is not an orange at all. Similarly, it makes no moral sense to say that a courageous man has decided to be a coward.
~ Vigen Guroian
But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking?—the entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world—a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.
~ Virginia Woolf
The degeneracy of a mob has no equal. It combines the mentality of the bigot, the coward, the sadist and the molester and the rapist. If there is an exception, I've yet to see it. I would love to line up a few of the participants in my sights. Now they are surrounding my home, both the living and the dead.
~ James Lee Burke
But I don't fear him, and that's because I have never known a bully who was not a coward.
~ James Lee Burke
Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
~ Cormac McCarthy
That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You've hit no traitor on the hip. You've dashed no cup from perjured lip. You've never turned the wrong to right. You've been a coward in the fight.
~ Charles Mackay
I was a coward. I went to the war.
~ Tim O'Brien
Cloaked there in that petrified darkness, crammed shoulder to shoulder with the breath of their fear on her neck, she learned that coward was often only another name for survivor.
~ Toby Barlow
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.
~ Tony Parsons
It was not for an outrage that they grieved, but for simple grief: the only alternative to which was nothing, and between grief and nothing only the coward takes nothing.
~ William Faulkner
I, Inigo Montoya, do challenge you, coward, pig, killer, ass, fool, to battle.
~ William Goldman
Envy is the coward side of Hate, and all her ways are bleak and desolate.
~ Henry Abbey
This is our siblings of more famous BookWorld Personalities self-help group expalined Loser (Gatsby). That's Sharon Eyre, the younger and wholly disreputable sister of Jane; Roger Yossarian, the draft dodger and coward; Rupert Bond, still a virgin and can't keep a secret; Tracy Capulet, who has slept her way round Verona twice; and Nancy Potter, who is a Muggle.
~ Jasper Fforde
Would there were a festival for my fears, a ritual burning of what is coward in me, what is lost in me. Let the light in before it is too late.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Boredom is the coward's reaction to staring at a wall.
~ Unknown
Hell is when we look back during the fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at the moment I made some mistakes, but I wasn't a coward. I Lived my life and did what I had to do
~ Paulo Coelho