Cowardice Quotes

“Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero.”

“To cowards what advice shall I offer? - nothing whatsoever have I to say.”

“Do not run away, it is cowardice.”

“We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.”

“Bullies are always cowards.”

“Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.”

“Cowardice is no virtue.”

“Every Tory is a coward; for servile, slavish, self-interested fear is the foundation of Toryism; and a man under such influence, though he may be cruel, never can be brave.”

“No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.”

“The coward, afraid of the lash, with one hand wipes his eyes and gives with the other. Of what avail are such gifts?”

“We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds into the belief that we are brave.”

“Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.”

“I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.”

“You gain nothing by becoming cowards.”

“Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.”

“Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.”

“How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.”

“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.”

“The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.”

“The thing that cowardice fears most is decision”

“For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not to himself. Nor does beauty and strength of body, when dwelling in a base and cowardly man, appear comely, but the reverse of comely, making the possessor more conspicuous, and manifesting forth his cowardice.”

“I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.”

“We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.”

“So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.”

“Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.”