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  • An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be. -- Steve Martin
  • Cowardly dogs bark loudest. -- John Webster
  • Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment. -- Richard M. Nixon
  • I wanted to work with Bert Lahr [the 'Cowardly Lion' in 'The Wizard of Oz'], and I did. -- Norman Lear
  • If the Cowardly Lion were on RuPaul's Drag Race, so much of my childhood would be less nightmarish. -- Julie Klausner
  • A penalty is a cowardly way to score. -- Pele
  • War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. -- Thomas Mann
  • When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear. -- Salman Rushdie
  • War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. -- Elbert Hubbard
  • To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  • You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist. -- Studs Terkel
  • Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means. -- Charles Kingsley
  • Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly. -- Robert M. La Follette
  • The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve. -- Robert Burns
  • In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective. -- Stanley Fish
  • I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write. -- David Mamet
  • It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. -- Margaret Mead
  • When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality. -- Oswald Chambers
  • It is not cowardly, quite the contrary, to seek to meet the adversary and know his intentions. However, it is cowardly, shameful and treasonable to lay down arms. -- King Hassan II
  • It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. -- Herodotus
  • We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly. -- Bill Maher
  • Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances. -- Robert Crumb
  • It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things. -- Lawrence G. Lovasik
  • I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me. -- Conrad Black
  • If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn't matter whether you're bold or cowardly, or whether you're stupid or intelligent. Doesn't get you anywhere. -- Werner Herzog
  • We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. -- Charles Horton Cooley
  • If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame. -- Oscar Wilde
  • He is never cowardly. -- Paulo Coelho
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  • Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always! -- Statius
  • An agnostic is a cowardly atheist. -- Studs Terkel
  • The world is not for cowardly peoples. -- Adolf Hitler
  • The most seditious is the most cowardly. -- Tacitus
  • No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly. -- Seneca the Elder
  • War spares not the brave, but the cowardly. -- Anacreon
  • A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies. -- Mark Twain
  • A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men. -- Stephen King
  • No, I'm not at all adventurous. I'm terribly cowardly. -- Roger Moore
  • Lots of people think that bisexual means cowardly lesbian. -- Sandra Bernhard
  • We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous. -- Aristotle
  • Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. -- Voltaire
  • A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. -- Quintus Curtius Rufus
  • Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned. -- Ignazio Silone
  • The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
  • There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • There are times when it is more courageous to be cowardly. -- Norman Reilly Raine
  • Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
  • To not do what you can to protect someone, that's cowardly. -- Jodi Lynn Anderson
  • To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition. -- Victoria Woodhull
  • I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. -- David Mamet
  • Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence. -- Charles Bukowski
  • There's no such thing as being cowardly in a fight. ~Edward Elric -- Hiromu Arakawa
  • Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it. -- Mary McCarthy
  • No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism. -- Plato
  • Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart. -- Ludovico Ariosto
  • One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly. -- Voltaire
  • Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence . -- Timothy Keller
  • It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me. -- John Bercow
  • The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all. -- Euripides
  • Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough. -- Terry Pratchett
  • To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • A brave nation fights because it must ; a cowardly nation fights because it can. -- Ilana Mercer
  • To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • I've always been very averse to innuendo, especially sexual. I find it cowardly or something. -- Norm MacDonald
  • Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are. -- Ludwig Borne
  • remember that though humility, without firmness, may be cowardly, yet courage without humility is presumptuous. -- Marie Angelique Arnauld
  • Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it. -- Philip Sidney
  • It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  • One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts. -- C. S. Lewis
  • A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. -- John Steinbeck
  • Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing. -- Vladimir K. Zworykin
  • A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk. [Lat., Vulgus ignavum et nihil ultra verba ausurum.] -- Tacitus
  • Just because I'm a murdering, thieving, cowardly, traitorous sort doesn't mean I can't do my job properly. -- James A. Owen
  • The wolf's clear, intelligent eyes brushed mine. The wolf is gentle-hearted. Not noble, not cowardly, just nonfighting. -- Lois Crisler
  • It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak. -- Franz Grillparzer
  • The Manifesto was a cowardly proceeding, the more I thought of it the less I liked it. -- B. H. Roberts
  • Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution? -- Saint Francis de Sales
  • In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited. -- Sallust
  • Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist! -- Charles Studd
  • There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs. -- Kim Harrison
  • The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone. -- Tacitus
  • I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • Suicide isn't cowardly. I'll tell you what's cowardly; treating people so badly that they want to end their lives. -- Ashley Purdy
  • It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless. -- Epictetus
  • ...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.- Mr. Penderwick -- Jeanne Birdsall
  • I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life. -- Oscar Wilde
  • The honey is guarded by bees.. The rose has thorns.. To enjoy the sweet & beautiful you can NOT be cowardly. -- Joseph Simmons
  • America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them. -- James A. Michener
  • France is hypocritical and cowardly. I sometimes think that, having been invaded by the Germans, we'd be run better today. -- Emmanuel Petit
  • It is cowardly to commit suicide. The English often kill themselves. It is a malady caused by the humid climate. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • It is our people who are sitting in the dark because of these cowardly and treacherous attacks, not our occupiers. -- Iyad Allawi
  • The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history. -- Herman Wouk
  • Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents -- Albert Camus
  • I decline Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth. -- Erich Ludendorff
  • Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third. -- Joseph Epstein
  • Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt. -- Darren Shan
  • Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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  • I'm very much against the anonymity of bloggers and social media. I just hate it and I think it's really cowardly. -- Ice T
  • You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue. -- Dee Remy
  • I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament. -- Christopher Lasch
  • A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will. -- Thomas Nagel
  • Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping -- Peggy Noonan
  • Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong. -- Doc Hastings
  • Experience shows that after a disaster it is particularly difficult with the Americans, who appear to be quite cowardly despite their Rambo films. -- Ken Bates
  • Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated." -- Ambrose Bierce
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