Coward Quotes - Page 9

• I'm really a peaceful sort of coward.

  L.A. Meyer

  Peaceful

  L. A. Meyer (2004). “Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dog, Moving, Light

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “You Get So Alone at Times”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• Life's not about security. It's about picking up the pieces after it's all over and carrying on. We can choose to be cowards who fear letting someone inside us, and do that alone. Or we can choose to be brave and let someone stand by our side and help us.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Brave, Pieces, Carrying On

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• 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

  Writing, Commodity, Holy

  Harlan Ellison (1972). “Dangerous Visions”, Berkley

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• 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

  Fun, Two, Dying

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• There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.

  Brian Jacques

  Brave, World, Littles

  Brian Jacques (2002). “Mossflower: A Tale from Redwall”, p.23, Penguin

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• The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.

  James F. Cooper

  Warrior, Sight, Blood

  "The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757". Book by James F. Cooper, February 1826.

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• Now if you know what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain't you! You're better than that!

  Sylvester Stallone

  Fingers, Willing, Knows

  "Rocky Balboa". www.imdb.com. December 13, 2006.

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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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• 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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• 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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• I don't fly on account of my religion. I'm a devout coward.

  Henny Youngman

  Religion, Accounts

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

  William Shakespeare

  Matter, Instinct

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.663, BookCaps Study Guides

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• It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards. Were all brave, they would lead a very uneasy life; all would be continually fighting; but being all cowards, we go on very well.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fighting, Brave, Would Be

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 326 (28 April 1778)

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• Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Tyrants

  Anthony Trollope (1864). “The Small House at Allington”, p.138

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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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• Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.

  George Herbert

  Lying, Heart, Men

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• Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Excuse, Neglect, Accomplish

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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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• I Was An NFL Player Until I was Fired By Two Cowards and a Bigot.

  Chris Kluwe

  Player, Nfl, Two

  "https://deadspin.com/i-was-an-nfl-player-until-i-was-fired-by-two-cowards-an-1493208214". deadspin.com. January 02, 2014.

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• The sot drinks, and is drunken: the coward drinks not, and shivers: the wise man, brave and free, drinks, and gives glory to the Most High God.

  Aleister Crowley

  Wise, Men, Giving

  Aleister Crowley “The Equinox Vol. 3. No. 1.”, Lulu.com

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• Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Mind, Suffering

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4554, Manonmani Publishers

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• I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.

  Trevor McDonald

  Facts, Terrible, Constant

  Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.

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• The coward’s fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in others’ lives stands in the way of his developing any inner resources sufficient to overcome the terror of death. — J. Glenn Gary, The Warriors

  Sebastian Junger

  Warrior, Overcoming, Inability

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• What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.

  Alexander Pope

  Blood, Ancestry, Slave

  Alexander Pope, Daniel Clark (1824). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.58

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