The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
Cowardice Quotes
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.
Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does. What passes through his mind is his own affair.
You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do.
