Coward Quotes - Page 9

• I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red.

  Dolly Parton

  Children, Book, Writing

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• Jack! "Where have you been,you miserable little creep?" He raised his eyebrows,a look of mock hurt on his face."This is the thanks I get?" "Give me that bat and I'll show you how grateful I am, coward!

  Kiersten White

  Hurt, Grateful, Eyebrows

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• Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.

  Billy Childish

  Art, Hero, Challenging Work

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

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Law, Earth

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• Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Brave, Thousand, Dies

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• Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.

  Robert Ludlum

  Feel Better, Men, Sometimes

  Robert Ludlum (2012). “The Bourne Supremacy: Jason Bourne Book #2”, p.96, Bantam

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• The mob gets out of hand, runs wild, worse than raging fire, while the man who stands apart is called a coward.

  Euripides

  Running, Men, Fire

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts”

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• The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Hero, Immortality

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• Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it

  Mark Lawrence

  Use

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.47, Penguin

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• What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!

  Duke of Wellington

  Uniforms, Mask

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• Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons

  George Bernard Shaw

  Order, Law, Hypocrisy

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.1383, e-artnow

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• If you want to call a man to account, don't do it when he is weak; call him to account when he is strong! Cowards choose the first way and the valiant choose the second way.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Strong, Men, Way

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• If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor.

  Jane Porter

  Looks, Valor, Refuge

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• Noel Coward said work is more fun than fun, but then he didn't work in the Bird's Eye factory packing frozen fish fingers nine hours a day, did he?

  Paul O'Grady

  Fun, Work, Eye

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• He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man faces when he's about to make his own name famous. He lacked both a hero's calm and a coward's resolve to survive at any price.

  Walter Hill

  Fear, Hero, Men

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• Actually, I can't stand watching violent scenes in films; I avoid watching horror films. I don't tend to watch action films mainly because I find them boring, but I watch the films of David Cronenberg and Martin Scorsese, usually in a state close to having a heart attack. I'm a complete coward. I make violent films as a result of my sensitivity to violence - in other words, my fear of violence.

  Park Chan-wook

  Heart, Violence, Watches

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• I look upon those who would deny others the right to urge and argue their position, however irksome and pernicious they may seem, as intellectual and moral cowards.

  William Borah

  Intellectual, Looks, May

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• Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Art, Cat, Rats

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1706). “The History of the Most Ingenious Knight Don Quixote de la Mancha,1”, p.150

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• Infinite Love is a weapon of matchless potency. It is the 'summum bonum' of life. It is an attribute of the brave, in fact it is their all. It does not come within the each of the coward. It is no wooden of lifeless dogma but a living and life-giving.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love Is, Giving, Brave

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• I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Selfish, Work, Hero

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• At the end of the day, capital is a coward. It's going to flee from wherever it perceives risk to be present in the marketplace.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Risk, The End Of The Day, Ends

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.

  Mark Lawrence

  Character, Humanity, Tragedy

  Mark Lawrence (2014). “Prince of Fools”, p.200, Penguin

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• The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.

  Stanley Milgram

  Patriotic, Soldier, Patriotism

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

  Socrates

  Pain, Desire, Pleasure

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• Man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Disciple, Dies

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2045, Manonmani Publishers

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