Coward Quotes

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

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

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

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

To be called a coward, I don't think that's fair.

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.

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

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

Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.

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

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

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.

The coward's weapon, poison.