Coward Quotes

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. (Euripides)
The coward threatens when he is safe. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger. View quote
Andrew Jackson
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. View quote
Laurence Sterne
I know you've come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man. View quote
Che Guevara
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide. View quote
Mickey Mantle
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. View quote
Umberto Eco
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
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. View quote
George S. Patton
You cannot be a hero without being a coward. (George Bernard Shaw)
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army. View quote
Joseph Stalin
Sir, he Bolingbroke was a scoundrel and a coward a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death. View quote
Samuel Johnson
He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword. View quote
Oscar Wilde
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. View quote
Bertrand Russell
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. View quote
John Calvin
Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be. View quote
William Faulkner
If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Where 's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land. (Walter Scott)
To know what is right and choose to ignore it is the act of a coward. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
I'm a complete coward in real life. View quote
Seth Rogen
Despair gives courage to a coward. View quote
Thomas Fuller
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir and there are many victories worse than a defeat. View quote
George Eliot