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Despair gives courage to a coward. -- Thomas Fuller
An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward. -- Chief Joseph
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. -- Ambrose Bierce
The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways. -- Gene Hackman
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended. -- George W. Bush
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man. -- Che Guevara
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. -- John Calvin
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. -- George S. Patton
The coward's weapon, poison. -- John Fletcher
Fatigue makes cowards of us all. -- Vince Lombardi
I'm a hero with coward's legs. -- Spike Milligan
A fortress is of no use to cowards. -- Thiruvalluvar
Coward is the most misused word in our society. -- Doug Stanhope
To be called a coward, I don't think that's fair -- Rodney Alexander
I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward -- Tupac Shakur
A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. -- Euripides
Coward: someone who in a bad situation thinks with his feet -- George S. Patton
These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned. -- Friedrich Schiller
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. -- Thomas Jefferson
I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl. -- Kelly Reilly
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. -- William Shakespeare
What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!" Percy had no intention of doing that. -- Rick Riordan
Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them. -- William Shakespeare
No coward can be the friend of the truth! Cowards have always been the friends of lies! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud. -- Ian Mckellen
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. -- Jean Paul
It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing. -- Kenneth Williams
I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward. -- Edith Piaf
Oh, Mr Coward, sir - I could never have an affair with you, because you remind me of my father! -- Kenneth More
The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her. -- Bob Marley
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward. -- Jose Bergamin
Your on your on with this one babe." "Coward." "Calling me names isn't going to get me in there." -Ranger and Stephanie -- Janet Evanovich
Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from the Americans. -- John Lahr
The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger. -- Andrew Jackson
I've rarely gotten a good review in my life, yet, to paraphrase Noel Coward, I am happy to console myself with the bitter palliative of commercial success. -- Steven Weber
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The Coward will run away from danger, only to strike in the dark. The Heroine will run through the dark, even though she knows the coward is waiting to strike. -- David A. Cleinman
The first play I ever saw - I was in junior high school - was a high school production of Noel Coward's 'Blithe Spirit,' which seemed to me absolutely magical. -- Terry Teachout
They're great devotees of Noel Coward in England, of course, he's a favorite son, and so to play Coward in London is such fun, and anyway, the role is such a crazy lady. I just love doing that. -- Angela Lansbury
Frost interviewing Noel Coward and Margaret Mead. Sir Noel's view of life is Sir Noel. Mead's mind is large and open, like Buckminster Fuller's. She found thoughts dull that suggest that men are superior to animals or plants. -- John Cage
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. -- Orison Swett Marden
I couldn't write a happy movie or romantic comedy to save my life. Yes, Noel Coward's an idol, but his plays are serious to me. 'Private Lives' and 'Design for Living' both have an edge. Without psychoanalyzing myself, I think I exorcise my demons in my work. -- John Logan
My philosophy is as simple as ever - smoking, drinking, moderate sexual intercourse on a diminishing scale, reading and writing (not arithmetic). I have a selfish absorption in the well-being and achievement of Noel Coward. -- Noel Coward
The coward only threatens when he is safe. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You cannot be a hero without being a coward. -- George Bernard Shaw
I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough. -- Stephen Fry
It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward. -- Dolores Ibarruri
If I'm scared and I'm a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight? -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. -- Laurence Sterne
I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. That's not me. -- Kevin Garnett
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. -- Edgar Allan Poe
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide. -- Mickey Mantle
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape. -- Voltaire
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger. -- Andrew Jackson
I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy. -- Cai Guo-Qiang
Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not. -- David Seabury
I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else. -- Tony Parsons
Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film. -- Alfred Hitchcock
Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they've got to make that choice. -- Tom Hanks
All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at the grandeur of the Creator's power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elements. -- John James Audubon
I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture. -- Robert Capa
A coward never forgives. -- Laurence Sterne
No coward soul is mine. -- Emily Bronte
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I was a coward on instinct. -- William Shakespeare
I'm a complete coward in real life. -- Seth Rogen
A coward's courage is in his tongue. -- Edmund Burke
The vertue of a coward is suspition. -- George Herbert
A coward cannot have any prayer answered. -- Nichiren
I'm really a peaceful sort of coward. -- L.A. Meyer
Only the winner and coward may survive. -- Toba Beta
A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty. -- Seneca the Younger
To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity. -- Bill Maher
Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated. -- George Bernard Shaw
I'm a charming coward; I fight with words. -- Carl Reiner
He who fears fate lives like a coward -- Curtis Jackson
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. -- George Bernard Shaw
The coward is an object to be pitied. -- Swami Vivekananda
I'm a coward, I didn't want to die. -- Patty Hearst
The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal. -- Henry Home, Lord Kames
Don't let fatigue make a coward of you. -- Steve Prefontaine
The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on. -- George Sewell
I was a coward. I'm still such a coward. -- Mary Downing Hahn
Even in my bravest moment, I am a coward. -- Isaac Marion
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Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward. -- Swami Vivekananda
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. -- Horace Smith
Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it. -- Vanna Bonta
Reveal yourself, mage! Only a coward stays cloaked in invisibility. -- Kristen Britain
The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty. -- Publilius Syrus
The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once! -- William Shakespeare
among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all -- Tracy Kidder
A coward dies every day,the courageous dies only once. -- Anonymous
I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward. -- Namie Amuro
Every man has a coward and hero in his soul. -- Thomas Carlyle
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward. -- Miguel de Cervantes
The more coward you are, the bigger your castle is! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Lack of conditioning will make a coward of us all. -- Dominick Cruz
A coward judges all he sees by what he is. -- Stephen King
Gun is the instrument of the coward and the weak! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward. -- Seneca the Younger
It is the act of a coward to wish for death. -- Ovid
The day for the Negro man being a coward is over. -- James Meredith
I'd never allow myself to let myself call myself a coward. -- Graham Taylor
Better it were not to live than to live a coward. -- Walter Raleigh
Like all bullies and marauders, Gos was a coward at heart -- L. Frank Baum
A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once. -- Tupac Shakur
God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse. -- Plutarch
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning. -- George Eliot
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live. -- Hermann Hesse
What coward would not fight when he is sure of victory? -- Richard Sibbes
A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward. -- Benjamin Franklin
Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated. -- Hosea Ballou
Ah, you coward! Look at you, running." "Actually, it's called improvising. -- Jonathan Stroud
There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward -- Aesop
Nearly every man is a coward, if confronted by the proper terror. -- E. W. Howe

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