Cowardice Quotes

“There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.”

“Who shuns the open field, and loves the dark.”

“One of the advantages of being a coward is that you're alive to tell the tale.”

“Yesterday I even thought about killing myself. But I am a coward.”

“Some men are born to feast, and not to fight; Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honour's field, Still on their dinner turn.”

“Blame is the coward's way out.”

“There's no shame in being a coward, but you have to be very careful about it.”

“Put 'em up, put 'em up! I'll fight you with one paw tied behind my back. I'll fight you standing on one foot. I'll fight you with my eyes closed.”

“It will never be known what acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of not looking sufficiently progressive.”

“Hatred is the revenge of a coward.”

“Silence is not always golden. Sometimes it is yellow.”

“Slander is the revenge of cowards.”

“A coward's threats are empty.”

“The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.”

“Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even an incoherent protest.”

“He led his regiment from behind—he found it less exciting.”

“Life is a battle in which we fall from wounds we receive in running away.”

“Children have self-respect, which does not allow them to forgive the cowardice of adults.”

“For this reason, the man who is cowardly and lazy in his soul is mocked by everyone, and there is no one who would not say that it is better to be a woman than such a man.”

“My valour is certainly going!—it is sneaking off!—I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!”