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.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Cowards can never be moral.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Cowards in scarlet pass for men of war.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.