Cowardice Quotes

“They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters?”

“That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.”

“O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch!Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?”

“I was a coward on instinct.”

“My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.”

“Milk-livered man,That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs;Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerningThine honor from thy suffering; [that not know'stFools do those villains pity who are punishedEre they have done their mischief. Where's thy drum?France spreads his banners in our noiseless land,With plumed helm thy state begins to threat,Whilst thou, a moral fool, sits still and cries'Alack, why does he so?']”

“It is the cowish terror of his spirit that dares not undertake; he'll not feel wrongs which tie him to an answer.”

“Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.”

“This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!”

“Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct.”

“Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast of thought”

“Conscience doth make cowards of us all.”

“Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us; worse, shuts the eyes of the mind and chills the heart.”

“He is white-livered and red-faced.”

“O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!”

“I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love.”

“Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.”

“Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe”

“The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.”

“Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.”

“Now must we sing and sing the best we can,But first you must be told your character:Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.”

“Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.”

“It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.”

“One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.”

“The coward is an object to be pitied.”