Cowardice Quotes

It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave, and one half 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.

Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is – nor yet so good a Christian.

A coward is a man in whom the instinct of self – preservation acts normally.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves.

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 […]