Cowardly Quotes - Page 3

• It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.

  Philip Sidney

  Suicide, Wish, Vain

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• I'm still very sensitive and wary of people recognising me The only thing that really annoys me is people trying to surreptitiously take a photo on their phone without asking. I feel it's cowardly and a bit pathetic. Just ask me if you really want me to have a photograph with you.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Phones, People, Trying

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• There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  World, Affair, Confession

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.34, Best Books on

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• Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure; if they obstruct it, they are characterized as simply villainous or cowardly. Hence every typical character...tends to have his moral opposite confronting him, like black and white pieces in a chess game.

  Northrop Frye

  Character, Black And White, Opposites

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• remember that though humility, without firmness, may be cowardly, yet courage without humility is presumptuous.

  Marie Angelique Arnauld

  Humility, May, Remember

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• Tradition has made women cowardly.

  Nance O'Neil

  Tradition, Made

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• Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Brave, Ahimsa, Highest

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.153, Rajpal & Sons

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• Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Dog, Secret

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.45, A&C Black

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• There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.

  James T. Rapier

  Bullying, Heart, Safety

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• A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.

  Thomas Nagel

  Conceited, Psychology, May

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mortal Questions”, p.32, Cambridge University Press

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• Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.

  Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

  Peace, War, Party

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• The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cities, India, Today

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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• Self-confidence is very important. If you don't think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for your opponent. You see the opportunity but also greater limitations than you should. I have always believed in what I do on the chessboard, even when I had no objective reason to. It is better to overestimate your prospects than underestimate them.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Success, Self Confidence, Winning

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• Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Lazy, Laziness

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.59, Cambridge University Press

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• They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.

  Anne Frank

  Stupid, Selfish, Tired

  Anne Frank (1993). “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl”, Bantam

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• Experience shows that after a disaster it is particularly difficult with the Americans, who appear to be quite cowardly despite their Rambo films.

  Ken Bates

  Soccer, Football, Rambo

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• I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Order, India, Arms

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• I am delighted to be part of this Women's Aid campaign - the statistics are frightening. I've spent time with the victims of these cowardly acts, and it's heartbreaking. Everyday women and children are being abused in their own homes. I am standing up and saying that I am a Real Man, and that violence against women and children has to end.

  Gethin Jones

  Children, Real, Home

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• For siege works against bold and venturesome men should be constructed on one plan, on another against cautious men, and on still another against the cowardly.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Men, Siege, Should

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• Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Action, Conscience, Remorse

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• The wolf's clear, intelligent eyes brushed mine. The wolf is gentle-hearted. Not noble, not cowardly, just nonfighting.

  Lois Crisler

  Eye, Intelligent, Noble

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• Look, this debate is basic: it's small government vs. big government. So how cowardly do folks like Blood and Frank Rich have to be that they can't man up and defend their love for collectivism? The only reason they scream race, is because that debate scares them. They know a racial accusation prevents dialogue, because such a harmful charge far outweighs any benefits of winning an argument.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Men, Winning, Blood

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• Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Doe, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.98, A&C Black

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• I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Boys, Punishment, Whipping

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.494, Xist Publishing

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• In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

  Sallust

  Brave, Victory, Adverse

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