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Quotes About Cowardly

That is such crap. How dare you be so fraudulently flirtatious, cowardly and dysfunctional? I am not interested in emotional fuckwittage. Goodbye.
~ Helen Fielding
She is aristocratic when she rides, jumping boldly over ditches and hedges, but who admires her? Certainly not her husband. He'd just despise her if she were cowardly. On the contrary: he reminds her to think of her children.    So she feels like an actor who is expected to act without an audience and ends up gnashing her teeth in rage and crying into her pillow during her sleepless nights.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
The seat belt irked his father more than Uncle Colin's not eating meat, because, though his father never said it, Larry knew he considered seat belts cowardly.
~ Unknown
she is queen, so they can come through and help the NightWings fight the RainWings, if need be. The RainWings were in awful danger. This wasn't a matter of a few dragons disappearing here or there. Glory was right, and Queen Magnificent was wrong. They have to fight back, or soon they'll all be dead. And I'm the only one who knows. But he was just Starflight, the weakest, most cowardly dragon ever chosen for a prophecy. How
~ Tui T. Sutherland
He can't tell him about me, though," said Turtle. "Or if he does, Darkstalker won't hear it. My enchantment hides me completely from him." I hope. I hope I hope I hope. If I did it right. Which seems unlikely, knowing me. Ack. "That's clever," said Qibli. "How did you think of that?" "I used this brainstorming method called pure terror," Turtle admitted. "It wasn't so much clever as deeply cowardly.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
what we call valorous niceness is often cowardly and sinful passivity in disguise.
~ Unknown
A memory for details, Elena knows, is only for the brave, and being cowardly or brave is not something one can choose.
~ Unknown
You're as cowardly as a g------ weasel. You know that? A weasel . That's what you are." "You don't know me," I say, spitting blood onto the dirt. I can't help it. I start to laugh. "And you obviously don't know much about weasels, either.
~ Holly Black
America is a nation with many flaws that only the stupid would deny, but with hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.
~ James A. Michener
The vast majority of people in academia, especially at the administrative level, have so little confidence in their ability to make an argument for their liberal cause, they choose to keep conservatives from making their own case at all. It's pathetic, cowardly, unconstitutional and completely predictable.
~ Katie Pavlich
A sniper is cowardly, sneaky; he kills from a distance, unseen.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.
~ Conrad Black
I look forward to a future of boredom and suffering, since I'm too cowardly to put an end to my days. I'll just go on: clubbing, snorting, drinking and persecuting the fools of the world.
~ Unknown
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
~ Voltaire
I am an Imperial commissar. I will enflame the weak, support the wavering, guide the lost. I will be all things to all men who need me. But I will also punish without hesitation the incompetent, the cowardly, and the treasonous. --Ibram Gaunt
~ Dan Abnett
An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
~ Steve Martin
Tell me about this Wizard Howl of yours. He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to anything. Indeed? Strange that you should speak so proudly such a list of vices, most loving of ladies. What do you mean, vices? I was just describing Howl. He comes from another world entirely, you know, called Wales, and I refuse to believe he's dead!
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Tell me of this wizard Howl of yours. Sophie's teeth chattered, but she said proudly, He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to do anything. Indded? asked Abdullah. Strange that you should speak so proudly such a list of vices, most loving of ladies. What do you mean, vices? Sophie asked angrily. I was just describing Howl!
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Tell me of this Wizard Howl of yours. Sophie's teeth chattered but she said proudly, He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to anything.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Experience shows that after a disaster it is particularly difficult with the Americans, who appear to be quite cowardly despite their Rambo films.
~ Ken Bates
Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre of them. And the guilty Thieves of Europe, the real sources of all deadly war in it, are the Capitalists
~ John Ruskin
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
~ Margaret Mead
Pity without rigor would be cowardly egotism, mere sentimentality.'
~ Matthew Pearl
Well, besides—I was wondering whether Caesar was true to his Order when he said it was not enough for his wife to be pure, since she was not also above public suspicion; or whether he was but a cowardly cur, who cloaked social timidity in a grand period, and shrank before the mud pellets of social opinion. Which was it—eh?
~ Ouida