Coward Quotes - Page 28

• I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Jail, Soul, Sycophants

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great personality. . . . But this was a kind of modern meanness to which Syme could not sink even in his extreme morbidity. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not coward enough to admire it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Personality, Enemy

  "The Man Who Was Thursday". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Ch. VI : The Exposure, 1908.

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• I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you.

  Ray Bradbury

  Looks, Done, Want

  Ray Bradbury (1951). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, Simon and Schuster

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• Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves.
  The Difference lies, as far as I can see,
  Not in the thing it self, but the Degree.

  John Wilmot

  Lying, Men, Self

  John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.102, Taylor & Francis

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• The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.

  Charles Bukowski

  Men, Thinking, Jumping

  "Notes of a Dirty Old Man". Book by Charles Bukowski, 1969.

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• What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not dare stand too near the cross in case they got involved) into heroes who would stop at nothing? A swindle? Hallucination? Spooky nonsense in a darkened room? Or Somebody quietly doing what He said He'd do - walk right through death? What do you think?

  John Bertram Phillips

  Christian, Prayer, Hero

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• Even in my bravest moment, I am a coward.

  Isaac Marion

  Moments

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Courage, Men, Pits

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.64, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave,
  And only cowards dare affront a woman.

  George Farquhar

  Sex, Women, Brave

  George Farquhar (1759). “The Constant Couple, Or, a Trip to the Jubilee: A Comedy, as it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal at Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants”, p.65

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• To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.

  Rollo May

  Lazy, Blocked, Persons

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.169, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Want, Cheese

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• You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Long, Grace, Saving

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.125, A&C Black

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• Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Hardness, Hardiness

  William Shakespeare (1771). “The plays of Shakespeare, from the text of S. Johnson, with the prefaces, notes &c. of Rowe, Pope and many other critics. 6 vols. [in 12 pt. Followed by] Shakespeare's poems”, p.195

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• You're a coward if you don't stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.

  Bjork

  Ifs

  "The Invisible Woman: A Conversation With Bjork". Interview with Jessica Hopper, pitchfork.com. January 21, 2015.

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• Margaret had always dreaded lest her courage should fail her in any emergency, and she should be proved to be, what she dreaded lest she was--a coward. But now, in this real great time of reasonable fear and nearness of terror, she forgot herself, and felt only an intense sympathy--intense to painfulness--in the interests of the moment.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Real, Emergencies, Failing

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1059, Delphi Classics

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• Your on your on with this one babe." "Coward." "Calling me names isn't going to get me in there." -Ranger and Stephanie

  Janet Evanovich

  Names, Calling, Babe

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• Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Kissing, Men, Looks

  Eric Jerome Dickey (1999). “Cheaters”, E P Dutton

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• Ah, you coward! Look at you, running." "Actually, it's called improvising.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Running, Looks, Improvising

  Jonathan Stroud (2009). “Heroes of the Valley”, p.171, Random House

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• Karkaroff intends to flee if the Mark burns." "Does he?" said Dumbledore softly, as Fleur Delacour and Roger Davies came giggling in from the grounds. "And are you tempted to join him?" "No," said Snape, his black eyes on Fleur's and Roger's retreating figures. "I am not such a coward." "No," agreed Dumbledore. You are a braver man by far than Igot Karkaroff. You know, I sometimes think we Sort too soon..." He walked away, leaving Snape looking stricken.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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• Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Long, Helping, Remember

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.206, Penguin

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• Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does.

  Miles Franklin

  Bible, People, Doe

  Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.

  Stephen King

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  Stephen King (2016). “Misery”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Brave Person, Mark, Behinds

  "Talk is Cheap". Live album by Henry Rollins, Volume 1, 1998.

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• It is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as many believe

  Christopher Paolini

  Believe, Men, Imagination

  Christopher Paolini (2012). “Inheritance Deluxe Edition (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?

  Cormac McCarthy

  Fall, Men, Forever

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.227, Pan Macmillan

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