Coward Quotes - Page 33

• This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings--honors, treasures, beautiful women--accessible even to cowards.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Courage, Warrior

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• Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Littles, Feminine

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• The coward wants resolution, which the brave man can do without. He recognizes no faith above a creed, thinking this straw by which he is moored does him good service, because his sheet anchor does not drag.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Faith, Men, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau, Bradford Torrey, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “Cape Cod and Miscellanies”

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• Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Women, Thinking

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• Somebody who should have been born
  is gone.
  
  Yes, woman, such logic will lead
  to loss without death. Or say what you meant,
  you coward . . . this baby that I bleed.

  Anne Sexton

  Baby, Loss, Blood

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He that opposes his own judgment against the consent of the times ought to be backed with unanswerable truths; and he that has truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because of other men's opinions.

  Daniel Defoe

  Men, Fool, Sides

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• Patriots don't go to Russia. They don't seek asylum in Cuba. They don't seek asylum in Venezuela. They fight their cause here. Edward Snowden is a coward. He is a traitor. And he has betrayed his country. And if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so.

  John F. Kerry

  Leadership, Country, Home

  "Edward Snowden's interview: 10 things we learned" by Catherine E. Shoichet, www.cnn.com. May 29, 2014.

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• They're great devotees of Noel Coward in England, of course, he's a favorite son, and so to play Coward in London is such fun, and anyway, the role is such a crazy lady. I just love doing that.

  Angela Lansbury

  Fun, Crazy, Son

  "Angela Lansbury Talks BLITHE SPIRIT & More On TAVIS SMILEY" by Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. December 19, 2013.

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