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 -
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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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan Poe -
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 -
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
Hermann Hesse -
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 -
Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.
R.J. Rushdoony -
I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
Edith Piaf
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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 -
You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.
Kate Bosworth -
Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.
Emmanuel Jal -
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Ferdinand Foch -
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 -
It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.
Joseph Stalin
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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 -
I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
Carl Reiner -
'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 -
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 -
There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.
Ian Mckellen -
I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.
Namie Amuro
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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 -
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
George Bernard Shaw -
I am a man of peace, God knows how I love peace; but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.
Lajos Kossuth -
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco