A Coward Quotes

Peter: Where are you two going?
Tris: Why aren't you with your attack group eating dinner?
Peter: I don't have one. I'm injured.
Christina: Yeah right, you are!
Peter: Well, I don't want to go to battle with a bunch of factionless. So I'm going to stay here.
Christina: Like a coward. Let everyone else clean up the mess for you.
Peter: Yep! Have fun dying.
- Veronica Roth

If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.
- Veronica Roth

Paradise is being able to say at that (second before our death) moment: I made some mistakes, but I wasn't a coward. I lived life and did what I had to do.
- Paulo Coelho

Only the following items should be considered to be grave faults: not respecting another's rights; allowing oneself to be paralyzed by fear; feeling guilty; believing that one does not deserve the good or ill that happens in one's life; being a coward. We will love our enemies, but not make alliances with them. They were placed in our path in order to test our sword, and we should, out of respect for them, struggle against them. We will choose our enemies.
- Paulo Coelho

Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at that moment: 'I made some mistakes, but I wasn't a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do.
- Paulo Coelho

I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live
- Jodi Picoult

To be called a coward, I don't think that's fair.
- Rodney Alexander

He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.
- Ernest Hemingway

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.
- Ernest Hemingway

I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.
- Namie Amuro

Livia stayed silent and tried to quiet the screaming in her head. Fuck your mother, Blake! She was a drunk and a coward. You were a child, not a man, and you were only trying to end your own pain. She held tight to Dr. Lavender's advice. Listen. This was Blake's plane crash. Livia's silence invited him to continue.
- Debra Anastasia

Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be donethat's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.
- Piers Anthony

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
- Thomas Jefferson

Remember, the only thing to fear is Fear, and - well, don't even fear Fear, for he's a cowardly chap at the best, who will run if you show a brave front.
- William W Atkinson

I am not a saint or a cripple,
I am not a wound; now I will see
whether I am a coward.
- Margaret Atwood

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.
- Francis Bacon

A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

In any event, it's done, said Papa-which are the words of a coward to the power of ten.
- Muriel Barbery

For the record, I'm not an indecisive person, and I'm not a coward. I just have a very detailed imaginary life, and it sometimes takes precedence over what's actually happening around me.
- Elizabeth Bard

There's no need in both of us dying tonight. (Kiara)
I took an oath to save every life I could. I'm not about to back out on it now. I might be a lot of things, but a coward has never been one of them. (Syn)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

You really don't care for torture, do you? (Medea)
No, I don't. It's one thing to strike out in anger, another to cause agony for the hell of it. I'm a soldier, not a coward. (Stryker)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

But that isn't right. The King of Beasts shouldn't be a coward,' said the Scarecrow.
'I know it,' returned the Lion, wiping a tear from his eye with the tip of his tail. 'It is my great sorrow, and makes my life very unhappy. But whenever there is danger, my heart begins to beat fast.'
'Perhaps you have heart disease,' said the Tin Woodman.
'It may be,' said the Lion.
- L Frank Baum

Like all bullies and marauders, Gos was a coward at heart
- L Frank Baum

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
- Jean Paul

Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.
- Glenn Beck

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
- Albert Camus

There's a coward and a fool, and both of them are you, My heart is cracked and broken, but yours is frozen through.
- Jay Bell

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
- Jose Bergamin

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 be even worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in, Mr Nakata. 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

I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.
- Haruki Murakami

You have to look!" Johnnie Walker commanded. "That's another one of our rules. Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what going on. In fact, things will be even worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in, Mr. Nakata. 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

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
- E M Forster

Art thou afeard
To be the same in thine own act and valour
As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that
Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,
And live a coward in thine own esteem,
Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,'
Like the poor cat i' the adage?
- William Shakespeare

A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.
- William Shakespeare

Zwounds, ye fat paunch, an ye call me a coward, by the Lord, I'll stab thee.
- William Shakespeare

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

Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?'
I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. 'What irony?' I ask eventually, the words tumbling out in a hurried heap. 'That I am to be shot as a coward while you get to live as one.
- John Boyne

A fool shouts charge when he should retreat, A coward shouts retreat when he should charge and a wise man knows the difference. I charge.
- Tonny K Brown

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
- John Calvin

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
- George Bernard Shaw

They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.
- Neal Shusterman

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mahatma Gandhi

I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.
- Mahatma Gandhi

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt.
- Jim Butcher

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

He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.
- Gilbert K Chesterton

I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.
- Robert Capa

The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean... Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.
- Truman Capote

Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.
- Truman Capote

It's a bore, but the answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean. Not lawtype honest--I'd rob a grave, I'd steal two-bits off a dead man's eyes if I thought it would contribute to the day's enjoyment--but unto-thyself-type honest. Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.
- Truman Capote

Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.
- Suzanne Collins

He squinted at her. He recalled the tears in her eyes that had not fallen into her teacup. No, it wasn't a revelation. Not even to him. Yet, this was the same woman who had stolen a camel right out from under the Anti-Zionist army's nose. She'd taken his hand, thrown herself down a sand dune on a dare, and then beaten him back up it. She'd glared at him and refused to part from his side. A coward?
"Never," he said again.
- V S Carnes

Indian believes they ain't but two sins... bein a coward... and turnin agin yer own kind.
- Forrest Carter

As one long prepared, and graced with courage,
as is right for you who were given this kind of city,
go firmly to the window
and listen with deep emotion, but not
with the whining, the pleas of a coward;
listenyour final delectationto the voices,
to the exquisite music of that strange procession,
and say goodbye to her, to the Alexandria you are losing.
- C P Cavafy

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
- Oswald Chambers

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

A coward judges all he sees by what he is.
- Stephen King

People will tell us that without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy. So far as this is true, it is a coward's argument. Nobody but a coward would consciously choose to live in a fool's paradise. When a man suspects his wife of infidelity, he is not thought the better of for shutting his eyes to the evidence. And I cannot see why ignoring evidence should be contemptible in one case and admirable in the other.
- Bertrand Russell

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
- Bertrand Russell

I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.
- John Christopher

Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese.
- Terry Pratchett

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.
- Pat Conroy

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

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
- Edgar Allan Poe

But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.
- Virginia Woolf

Captain Jack: Rose, you are worth fighting for.
[Jack kisses Rose passionately]
Captain Jack: Wish I'd never met you, Doctor, I was much better off as a coward.
[Jack kisses the Doctor the same way]
- Russell T Davies

He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because fo other mens's opinions.
- Daniel Defoe

Meriwether Lewis's last words were, 'I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind.
- John Green

It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I was a coward and a slave. I say this without the slightest embarrassment. Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Every decent man of our time is and is bound to be a coward and a slave. This is his normal condition. I am deeply convinced of that. This is how he is constituted, and this is what he is meant to be.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If you want a definition of what a coward is, it's needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.
- Andrea Dworkin

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

Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.
- Harlan Ellison

To be afraid, a person has either to be very great and strong-- or else a coward. I'm neither.
- F Scott Fitzgerald

I am a coward. I am a cowardly coward, full of cowardice.
- Alex Flinn

Despair gives courage to a coward.
- Thomas Fuller

I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
- Stephen Fry

I never quite got the hang of the getting drunk & fondling the thighs [of all the cumbersome young males] business... whether that makes me a gallant & proper gentleman, a cowardly wuss or an unadventurous prude, I cannot make out
- Stephen Fry

I am a coward, damn you! I couldna tell ye, for fear ye would leave me, and unmanly thing that I am, I thought I couldna bear that!
- Diana Gabaldon

Why?" I shrieked, hitting him again and again, and again, the sound of the blows thudding against his chest. "Why, why why!".
Because I was afraid!" He got hold of my wrists and threw me backward so I fell across the bed. He stood over me, fists clenched, breathing hard.
I am a coward, damn you! I couldna tell ye, for fear ye would leave
me, and unmanly thing that I am, I thought I couldna bear that!"

- Diana Gabaldon

Mr. Thornton," said Margaret, shaking all over with her passion, "go down this instant, if you are not a coward. Go down and face them like a man. Save these poor strangers, whom you have decoyed here. Speak to your workmen as if they were human beings. Speak to them kindly. Don't let the soldiers come in and cut down poor-creatures who are driven mad. I see one there who is. If you have any courage or noble quality in you, go out and speak to them, man to man.
- Elizabeth Gaskell

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

I say you are a coward and you are; I think you hunt only to reassure yourself that you are not what you are: the weakest thing to ever walk the Earth. He will come for me and then we will be gone, and you will be helpless for all your hunting, because Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.
- William Goldman

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
- Oliver Goldsmith

Whatever happened after, even the loss, my life would be less if I had not had that. On the day I die, my only regret would be if I hadn't had it. If I had been too much a coward to take it while I had a chance.
- Amelia C Gormley

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

So there is responsibility. I cry, you 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 exect when he cries? This is simple. This is normal. This is community.
- Philip Gourevitch

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.
- Gene Hackman

A comrade who deserts a comrade is a cowardly dog, and all such dogs should die a dog's death, comrade -
- Robert Harris

Ready, Rachel? I'd like your opinion on the lab that was broken into." His eyes flicked past us to the closed nursery door before coming back to us, his smile fading as he noticed Ceri's tension. I was such a coward. "You want me to look at a crime scene? That's a switch," I said
- Kim Harrison

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

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!
- J K Rowling

One more thing: Philippe, you are not a coward-so what I want to hear from you is the ecstatic truth about the twin towers.
- Werner Herzog

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
- Alfred Hitchcock

But I knew that I would have to live forever with what I did on that night of dying, and that if I chose to be a coward, I would have to repeat such cowardice over and over again in order to justify that it had ever occurred.
- Kate Horsley

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

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

If I've never stepped outside the role that's been assigned to me since birth, I've never tested myself. I've been too afraid of others' opinions, I think. I've been a coward. If that woman needs me, why not help her - for her... and for me?
- Elizabeth Hoyt

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.
- Dolores Ibarruri

So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?
Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!
- Diana Wynne Jones

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.
- Chief Joseph

I'd rather fail to try than try and fail. But, then, I am a coward.
- Jarod Kintz

Some people saynot to my face, mind youthat I'm a cowardly son of a bitch. And that is simply not true. My mom is not a bitch.
- Jarod Kintz

Thanks," I said, "have a great day." And I turned to leave. Damn! I am such a coward. Next time I'll get her number, I told myself, even though I said the exact same thing sixty-some dollars ago. I needed a plan. I needed an event to take her to. What did I think I was going to do, ask her out to coffee?.
- Jarod Kintz

among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all
- Tracy Kidder

I will have no man in my boat," said Starbuck, "who is not afraid of a whale." By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
(moby dick chap 26 p112)
- Herman Melville

Frighted Jonah trembles, and summoning all his boldness to his face, only looks so much the more a coward.
- Herman Melville

I perceived now that there is a love deeper than theirs who seek only the happiness of their beloved. Would a father see his daughter happy as a whore? Would a woman see her lover happy as a coward?
- C S Lewis

I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.
- Meriwether Lewis

The man who grounds his action on another's cowardice, is essentially a coward himself.
- George Macdonald

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

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
- Thomas Mann

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
- Mickey Mantle

If I'm scared and I'm a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?
- Floyd Mayweather Jr

Whatever will happen will happen. You either face it as a coward or you face it as a hero.
- O R Melling

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

All of this caused Kiyoaki constant pain. In comparison with Satoko's public humiliation, however, he did not even have a slighting remark to contend with. And however acute his private agony, it was, after all, the torment of a coward.
- Yukio Mishima

That's weak! You don't know what caring is... Caring is love. And love fights! Love doesn't look for the path of least resistance. Hell's bells, Roderick, if love was that easy everyone would have it. You're a coward!
- Karen Marie Moning

Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight - you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds - you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs.
- Elizabeth Moon

As with husbands and wives, so with many fathers and daughters, and so with some sons and mothers: the man will himself be cross in public and think nothing of it, nor will he greatly mind a little crossness on the part of the woman; but let her show agitation before any spectator, he is instantly reduced to a coward's slavery. Women understand that ancient weakness, of course; for it is one of their most important means of defense, but can be used ignobly.
- Booth Tarkington

Hear, hear," said the Dog, raising her head. "It's always better to be doing, Prince. Besides, you don't smell like a coward, so you can't be one.
- Garth Nix

I was a coward. I went to the war.
- Tim O Brien

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.
- Ouida

If you don't make a few ememies now and then, you're a coward-or worse. Besides, it as worth it to see his reaction. Oh, he was angry!
- Angela to Eragon
- Christopher Paolini

A penalty is a cowardly way to score.
- Pele

To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves.
- Fernando Pessoa

It's not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,' said Simmons. 'Everyone knows you don't fight like a gentleman.'
'That might be called an oxymoron,' Ramses said. 'Oh--sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home.'
The poor devil didn't know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise.
- Elizabeth Peters

I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
- Edith Piaf

People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robbed him of his life and his horse and $150 in cash money plus two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band.
- Charles Portis

You listen to me, Beaumont Tyler Grady. You are a wise-cracking, stubborn, annoying pain in the ass who lives to cause trouble. You're also a brave, courageous, and valiant Marine who puts his life on the line for what he believes and for those he loves. There is no way you have ever been or ever will be a coward. It simply isn't in you.
- Abigail Roux

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.
- David Seabury

I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward
- Tupac Shakur

Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life with a successive life is simply to transfer the onus of purpose to the next generation; the displacements amounts to a cowardly and potentially infinite delay. Your children's answer, presumably, will be to procreate as well, and in doing so to distract themselves, to foist their own aimlessness onto their offspring.
- Lionel Shriver

Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of fear like a coward and a base man. Are you anxious that your faith be professed by cowards and base people?
- Henryk Sienkiewicz

A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward.
A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn't tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been.
- Betty Smith

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
- Horace Smith

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
- Laurence Sterne

Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.
- Andrew Taylor Still

Superman didn't become Superman. Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he's Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. 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

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.
- Studs Terkel

What do you want from me?"
"Own up to it. I can live with a cheater, but not with a coward.
- Aleksandr Voinov

The truth was, Azoth hated Azoth. Azoth was a coward, passive, weak, afraid, disloyal. Azoth had hesitated. Master Blint didn't know it, but the poisons on the needle had killed Azoth. He was Kylar now, and Kylar would be everything Azoth hadn't dared to be.
- Brent Weeks

I AM A COWARD.
- Elizabeth Wein

Filled with a coward rage that dares to burn but does not dare to blaze, Lord Emsworth coughed a cough that was undisguisedly a bronchial white flag.
- P G Wodehouse

My wife and I were present at this congress. Sabina told me, "Richard, stand up and wash away this shame from the face of Christ! They are spitting in His face." I said to her, "If I do so, you lose your husband." She replied, "I don't wish to have a coward as a husband.
- Richard Wurmbrand

Actually, I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say, and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise.
- Murong Xuecun