Coward Quotes
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See! he sinksWithout a word; and his ensanguined bierIs vacant in the west, while far and nearBehold! each coward shadow eastward shrinks,Thou dost not strive, O sun, nor dost thou cryAmid thy cloud-built streets.
Frederick William Faber
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The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!
William Shakespeare
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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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I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.
Kelly Reilly
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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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Kill me then,' panted Harry, who felt no fear at all, but only rage and contempt. 'Kill me like you killed him, you coward-' DON'T-' screamed Snape, and his face was suddenly demented, inhuman, as though he was in as much pain as the yelping, howling dog stuck in the house behind them- 'CALL ME A COWARD!
Joanne Rowling
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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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This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!
William Shakespeare
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The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
Aristotle
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Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly.
N.D. Wilson
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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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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul
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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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I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.
Plutarch
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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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Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.
William Shakespeare
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I must speak the truth, even at the risk of being ostracized by my fellow scribblers. In fact, anticipating their rage, I have already applied for a place in the Canada Council's witness-protection program. This because, much as it pains me to turn on my kind, I fear the time has come to admit that far too many celebrated writers were outrageous liars, philanderers, drunks, druggies, unsuitable babysitters, plagiarists, psychopaths, parasites, cowards, indifferent dads or moms and bad credit risks.
Mordecai Richler
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Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.
William Shakespeare