Coward Quotes

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Brave, Incapable

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Thomas Jefferson

Spirit, Quarrels, Exposed

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
George S. Patton

Men, Best, Fear

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
Che Guevara

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
George Bernard Shaw

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan Poe

Him, Brave, Afraid

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Albert Camus

Hope, Fool, Human

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
John Calvin

God, Truth, Dog

The coward only threatens when he is safe.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Safe, Threatens

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Voltaire

Death, Brave, Behind

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
Ambrose Bierce

Thinks, Legs, Emergency

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Bertrand Russell

Fear, Known, Boast

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.
Chief Joseph

Brave, Indian, Respects

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.
Dolores Ibarruri

Wife, Hero, Widow

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
Bertrand Russell

Pain, Heart, Start

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
George W. Bush

Morning, Freedom, Attacked

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
Mickey Mantle

Courage, Team, Goes

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

Someone, Down, Else

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
Laurence Sterne

Nature, Brave, Forgive

Despair gives courage to a coward.
Thomas Fuller

Courage, Despair, Gives

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.
David Seabury

Courage, Powerful, Enemy

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul

Time, Person, Before

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
Andrew Jackson

Country, Brave, Worth

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
Alfred Hitchcock

Life, Good, Fear

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
Pearl S. Buck

God, Truth, Dog

While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.
Al Gore

Strength, Truth, Courage

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Oliver Goldsmith

Strength, Justice, Enough

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco

Dreams, Real, Hero

I'm a hero with coward's legs.
Spike Milligan

I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
Stephen Fry

Lazy, Enough, Bit

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