Quote: For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears. Author: Christian Nevell Bovee 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer
Quote: Faint heart never won fair lady. Author: Miguel De Cervantes 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet
Quote: How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination. Author: Jeremy Collier 1650-1726, British Clergyman, Conjuror
Quote: To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher
Quote: Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare. Author: Queen's Mother Elizabeth 1900-, Mother of Current Queen of Great Britain
Quote: Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen. Author: Epictetus 50-120, Stoic Philosopher
Quote: Cowards can never be moral. Author: Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader
Quote: Fear has its use but cowardice has none. Author: Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader
Quote: Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save. Author: John Gay 1688-1732, British Playwright, Poet
Quote: The coward threatens when he is safe. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Author: Ernest Hemingway 1898-1961, American Writer
Quote: When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion. Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher
Quote: It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward. Author: Dolores Ibarruri 1895-1989, Spanish Politician, Orator
Quote: A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. Author: Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826, Third President of the USA
Quote: I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so. Author: Junius 1769-1771, Anonymous British Letter Writer
Quote: A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. Author: Marvin Kitman
Quote: Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive. Author: George A. Knight
Quote: I'm a hero with coward's legs. Author: Spike Milligan 1918-, British Comedian, Humorous Writer
Quote: That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. Author: Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer
Quote: It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life. Author: Irish Proverb Sayings of Irish Origin
Quote: There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. Author: Ayn Rand 1905-1982, Russian Writer, Philosopher
Quote: All men would be cowards if they could. Author: Earl Rochester 1647-1680, British Courtier, Poet
Quote: The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards. Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist
Quote: A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. Author: Quintus Curtius Rufus fl. 100 AD, Roman Historian
Quote: When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on. Author: George Sewell
Quote: Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands! Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist
Quote: A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward. Author: Philip Dormer Stanhope
Quote: It is better to be killed than frightened to death. Author: Robert S. Surtees
Quote: The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The cowards never started -- and the weak died along the way. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly. Author: Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer
Quote: Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Author: Bishop Westcott