COWARDICE QUOTES

quotations about cowardice

Often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.

JAMES CLEMENS

Hinterland


There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.

ALBERT CAMUS

Notebooks


A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.

MARVIN KITMAN

The Coward's Almanac; Or, The Yellow Pages


Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is ... God help him.

KHALED HOSSEINI

The Kite Runner


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

EDGAR WATSON HOWE

Country Town Sayings


So cowards fight when they can fly no further;
As doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Henry VI


Cowardice ... is a timorous dejection of soul, creating imaginary dangers. When such a faint-hearted wretch as this is at sea, he fancies all the promontories are so many hulks of ships wreck'd on the coast. The least agitation of the waters puts him in a panic fear, and makes him enquire whether all that are aboard ar initiated.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine


Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

THOMAS FULLER

attributed, And I Quote


Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

AMBROSE BIERCE

The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories


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

CORMAC MCCARTHY

All the Pretty Horses


The meek will inherit the earth, but only because they won't have the courage to refuse.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


When in doubt chicken out.

WILLIAM M. HARDY

The Jubjub Bird


In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

CHARLES DICKENS

Great Expectations


I'm a hero with coward's legs.

SPIKE MILLIGAN

Puckoon


It's when you run away that you are most liable to stumble.

CASEY ROBINSON

attributed, Sura's Quotable Quotes


Complete courage and absolute cowardice are extremes that very few men fall into. The vast middle space contains all the intermediate kinds and degrees of courage; and these differ as much from one another as men's faces or their humors do.

FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Moral Maxims and Reflections


Cowards die many times before their deaths
The valiant never taste of death but once.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Julius Caesar


Most civilization is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.

FRANK HERBERT

God Emperor of Dune


The worst cowards, banded together, have their power.

HOMER

The Iliad


Of cowards no history is written.

ENGLISH PROVERB