Coward Quotes
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
Cai Guo-Qiang
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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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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
Hermann Hesse
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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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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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Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.
R.J. Rushdoony
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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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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Ferdinand Foch
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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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The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.
Emmanuel Jal
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It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.
Joseph Stalin
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You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.
Kate Bosworth
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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 Scotchman to draw the trigger at his death.
Samuel Johnson
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I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
Carl Reiner
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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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'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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The gazing crowd, of glittering State afraid, Adore the Power their coward meanness made; In war's short intervals, while regal shows Still blind their reason and insult their woes.
Joel Barlow
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It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.
Dolores Ibarruri
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I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
Che Guevara
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco
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I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.
Namie Amuro