Coward Quotes
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I am such a coward when it comes to political arguments. I tend to sort of recoil rather than engage.
John Lithgow
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From what I know about alcoholism, I'd say there's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave - nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.
Warren Zevon
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Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.
R.J. Rushdoony
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A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them to carry the burden of life, to work for others, and to put their shoulders to the wheel of social life, is a coward who hides himself when the battle is on, and goes to sleep drunk on an opiate.
H. P. Blavatsky
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
Edith Piaf
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You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
Carl Reiner
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'You will be very welcome,' answered Dorothy, 'for you will help to keep away the other wild beasts. It seems to me they must be more cowardly than you are if they allow you to scare them so easily.' 'They really are,' said the Lion, 'but that doesn't make me any braver, and as long as I know myself to be a coward I shall be unhappy.'
L. Frank Baum
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A falsehood, which may be pardoned if it is to save another, is black sin if used by a coward to save himself.
John Buchan
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Wouldst have the princely spirit bowed? Whisper only, speak not loud, Mark and leave him in the crowd.Thou need'st not spies nor jailers have; The free will serve thee like the slave, Coward shrinking from the brave.
Margaret Fuller
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There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.
Ian Mckellen