Cowardice Quotes

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

To keep silent when we should protest, makes cowards of men.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Ned would liken himself to Achilles of old. I hope he’ll admit of a single correction; In his heels lay Achilles’ danger we’re told, Whilst Ned in his heels finds his only protection.

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying […]

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

He’s a chicken.

Fannius, as he was fleeing from the enemy, put himself to death. Isn’t this, I ask, madness to die for fear of dying?

Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word.

Cowards die many times.