Coward Quotes
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When the facts of history are written Haile Selassie of Abyssinia will go down as a great coward who ran away from his country to save his skin and left the millions of his countrymen to struggle through a terrible war that he brought upon them because of his political ignorance and his racial disloyalty.
Marcus Garvey
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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.
H. L. Mencken
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Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.
William Shakespeare
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I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.
Kelly Reilly
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It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.
Kenneth Williams
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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.
William Butler Yeats
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O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch! Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?
William Shakespeare
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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul
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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.
Kevin Costner
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Because the Republican Party are filled with cowards they're afraid to reach out to the Hispanic community, they're afraid to reach out to the black community.
Andrew Breitbart
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A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I die with a clear conscience, I die fighting, not like a coward.
Joe Hill
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This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!
William Shakespeare
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There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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The difference between the hero and the coward is that the hero sticks in there five minutes longer
Brian Tracy
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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.
George Eliot
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Since cowardice must occur at a time and place where an enemy either has already appeared or may yet turn up, servicemen in peacetime - and ordinary civilians - can breathe a sigh of relief. If you are yellow-bellied back home, you're not technically a coward.
Charles Duhigg
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Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.
Quentin Tarantino
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Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe
William Shakespeare
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Sooner or later we all must die. Warriors choose to do so on their feet, standing between their enemies and those they hold dear. With a weapon in their hands. Cowards choose to do so on their bellies. Unarmed.
David Gell
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Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
William Shakespeare
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I love him for his sake; And yet I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him That they take place when virtue's steely bones Looks bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
William Shakespeare
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A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.
Seneca the Younger