Coward Quotes - Page 22

• It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors.

  Enoch Powell

  Government, Blind, Traitor

  "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell" by Simon Heffer, (p. 53), 1999.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• You've got to keep yourself in prime physical condition, because fatigue makes cowards of us all.

  Vince Lombardi

  Prime, Fatigue, Conditions

  7 Copy quote

• the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.

  Anais Nin

  Surprise, Cynicism, Cynic

  4 Copy quote

• The abbot told me once that lying was a betrayal to one's self. It's evidence of self-loathing. You see, when you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie to hide it rather than accept yourself for who you really are. The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you. It's like when a man would rather die than be thought of as a coward. His life is not as important to him as his reputation. In the end, who is the braver? The man who dies rather than be thought of as a coward or the man who lives willing to face who he really is?

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Betrayal, Lying, Reality

  4 Copy quote

• Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

  Octavia Butler

  Liars, Lying, Tyrants

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.226, Open Road Media

  147 Copy quote

  Show source

• Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.

  William Hazlitt

  Passion, Reflection, Men

  4 Copy quote

• This is our siblings of more famous BookWorld Personalities self-help group expalined Loser (Gatsby). That's Sharon Eyre, the younger and wholly disreputable sister of Jane; Roger Yossarian, the draft dodger and coward; Rupert Bond, still a virgin and can't keep a secret; Tracy Capulet, who has slept her way round Verona twice; and Nancy Potter, who is a Muggle.

  Jasper Fforde

  Sibling, Self, Personality

  5 Copy quote

• A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Men, Bully, Brave

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1853). “Sam Slick's wise saws and modern instances: or, What he said, did, or invented”, p.105

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

  Jonathan Swift

  People, Emergencies

  23 Copy quote

• I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Courage, Military, Heart

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1865). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.96

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.

  Glen Cook

  Heart, Dark, Plot

  Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.331, Macmillan

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward. It is the weapon of the brave.

  Richard Attenborough

  Brave, Weapons, Shields

  17 Copy quote

• Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.

  John Irving

  Looks, Appearance, Reason

  17 Copy quote

• Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.

  Ray Bradbury

  Long, Way, Saws

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.39, Hamilton Books

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Coward: someone who in a bad situation thinks with his feet

  George S. Patton

  Thinking, Feet, Situation

  6 Copy quote

• In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God and no future state, yet even then it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Selfish, Brave, Soul

  Frederick William Robertson (1850). “An address delivered to the members of the Working Man's Institute, at the Town Hall, Brighton, on Thursday, April 18, 1850, on the question of the introduction of sceptical publications into the library”, p.13

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.

  Haruki Murakami

  Eye, Ears, World

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 24, 2017

  61 Copy quote

  Show source

• A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? "Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man... only 500"?

  Meredith Willson

  Running, Men, Brave

  "Fictional character: Harold Hill". "The Music Man", www.imdb.com. 1962.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.

  Jose Bernardo

  Weapons, Metaphor

  4 Copy quote

• Let him go, Julian. His entire body isn’t worth one molecule of yours. (Grace) (To Paul) Where I come from, we butchered worthless cowards like you just for practice. (Julian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Practice, Grace, Molecules

  4 Copy quote

• The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

  Margaret Mitchell

  Liars, Honor, Cad

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.142, Hamilton Books

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• The people are living seperately together," he said. "So there is responsibility. I cry, you cry. You cry, I cry. We all come running, and the one that stays quiet, the one that stays home, must explain. Is he in league with the criminals? Is he a coward? And what would he expect when he cries? This is simple. This is normal. This is community.

  Philip Gourevitch

  Running, Responsibility, Home

  Philip Gourevitch (1999). “We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories From Rwanda”, p.34, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whatever will happen will happen. You either face it as a coward or you face it as a hero.

  O.R. Melling

  Hero, Faces, Happens

  7 Copy quote

• A clever enemy would kiss my hand, then stab at my back while I was distracted. (Stryker) A coward’s action. Truly. Don’t insult either one of us with such a suggestion. I don’t believe in petty juvenile attacks. I go after what I want, and when it’s the life of an enemy I don’t want there to be any mistaking my intention. If you’re worth my hatred, then you’re worth my letting you know that I’m coming for you. (Zephyra)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Clever, Believe, Kissing

  4 Copy quote

• The difference between the hero and the coward is that the hero sticks in there five minutes longer

  Brian Tracy

  Hero, Differences, Sticks

  7 Copy quote