Cowardice Quotes

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.

It is cowardly to fly from a living enemy or to abuse a dead one.

All enchantments die; only cowards die with them.

I have seen their backs before. (when French marshals turned their backs on him at a reception)

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.