Quotes About Cowardice

Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.

deciding that just as discretion was the better part of valor, so was cowardice the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.

just as discretion was the better part of valor, so was cowardice the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in the closet.

Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion was the better part of valour, so was cowardice the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a cupboard.

Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion was the better part of valor, so was cowardice the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet. The

No argument will give courage to the coward.

The truth is people are an extraordinary mixture of heroism and cowardice.

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

Can't really say?' Nick said, and heard, as he sometimes did, his own father's note of evasive sympathy. It was how his family sidled round its various crises; nothing was named, and you never knew for sure if the tone was subtly comprehensive, or just a form of cowardice.

Killing women and children at a bus stop or in a Nazi concentration camp—or at the federal building in Oklahoma City, for that matter—should be referred to as 'murder.' They aren't acts of war. They're acts of cowardice.

In a spectacle of cowardice and political opportunism, the politicians support Hitler and pass a new law.

I'm such a scaredy cat.

While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice.

MARIA. Well I'll not debate how far Scandal may be allowable — but in a man I am sure it is always contemtable. — We have Pride, envy, Rivalship, and a Thousand motives to depreciate each other — but the male-slanderer must have the cowardice of a woman before He can traduce one.

I think I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation. Perhaps this is what Veronica called cowardice and I called being peaceable.

you begin lying to her. Why? Something to do with the need to create some internal space which you could keep intact—and where you could yourself remain intact. And this is how it is for you now. Love and truth—where have they gone? You ask yourself: Is staying with her an act of courage on your part, or an act of cowardice? Perhaps both? Or is it just an inevitability?

there was a sense in which he had no choice. He couldn't live with Susan; he couldn't establish a separate life away from her; therefore he went back to live with her. Courage or cowardice? Or mere inevitability?

And while he was tormenting himself, here was a question he would often arrive at when his mind followed a particular trail of memory. Handing back Susan had been an act of self-protection on his part. There was no doubt about that; and no doubt in his mind that he had to do it. But beyond this, was it an act of courage, or of cowardice? And if he couldn't decide, perhaps the answer was: both.

But at the entrance to science, as at the entrance to hell, the demand must be posted: 'Qui si convien lasciare ogni sospetto; Ogni vilta convien che qui sia morta.' Here all suspicion needs must be abandoned, ?All cowardice must needs be here extinct

It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.

No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

I think no virtue goes with size;The reason of all cowardiceIs, that men are overgrown,And, to be valiant, must come downTo the titmouse dimension.

Brave men die a single death; cowards marry fish-head mermaids!

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.