Coward Quotes

You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.

The coward's weapon, poison.

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.

President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.

I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.

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

Oh, Mr Coward, sir - I could never have an affair with you, because you remind me of my father!

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

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.

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

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

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.

If I'm scared and I'm a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

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.

I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.

Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.

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.

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

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

I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.

I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.

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

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