Cowardly Quotes - Page 12

• If the Cowardly Lion were on RuPaul’s Drag Race, so much of my childhood would be less nightmarish.

  Julie Klausner

  Race, Childhood, Would Be

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• It must not be thought that the cowardly feeling of caution and uneasy self-preservation is innate in the English character. It is the consequence of a corpulence derived from wealth and of the training of all thoughts and passions for acquisitiveness.

  Alexander Herzen

  Passion, Character, Self

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• Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Brave, Would Be

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• Your cowardly self-delusions about “love” when you know as well as I do that there’s never been anything between us but contempt and distrust and a terrible sickly dependence on each other’s weakness- that’s why. That’s why I couldn’t stop laughing about the Inability to Love, and that’s why I can’t stand to let you touch me, and that’s why I’ll never again believe in anything you think, let alone anything you say

  Richard Yates

  Believe, Thinking, Self

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• The form of government, when it has been prudently established, produces citizens distinguished for bravery, justice, and every other good quality; whereas, on the other hand, bad institutions render men cowardly, rapacious, and slaves of every foul desire.

  Dionysius of Halicarnassus

  Men, Hands, Justice

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• Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we're simultaneously both cowardly and arrogant. We don't know the answers, so we assume they must not exist.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Believe, Arrogant, Answers

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always been very averse to innuendo, especially sexual. I find it cowardly or something.

  Norm MacDonald

  Innuendo

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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