Words matter. These are the best Coward Quotes from famous people such as Emmanuel Jal, Sallust, Martin Van Creveld, Mahatma Gandhi, Jose Bergamin, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
If you are strong, and you are fighting the weak for any period of time, you are going to become weak yourself. If you behave like a coward, then you are going to become cowardly – it’s only a question of time.
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
I’m not temperamentally into high comedy. I’m not a Noel Coward kind of girl.
The coward only threatens when he is safe.
While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.
It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.
I guess you could say I’m cautious, or a coward.
I’m a charming coward; I fight with words.
The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.
Oh, Mr Coward, sir – I could never have an affair with you, because you remind me of my father!
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
Using a gun is a coward’s way to hurt someone.
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.
To be scrupulously honest, I only met Noel Coward twice in my life, and then briefly, but I heard so much about him at home when I was growing up that I always felt I knew him well.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
If any man has left us for fear of Nero, I shall not account him a coward; but I shall hail as a philosopher any man who has been superior to this fear, and I shall teach him all I know.
The coward’s weapon, poison.
Since cowardice must occur at a time and place where an enemy either has already appeared or may yet turn up, servicemen in peacetime – and ordinary civilians – can breathe a sigh of relief. If you are yellow-bellied back home, you’re not technically a coward.
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.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Only the brave know how to forgive… a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
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.
Despair gives courage to a coward.
I myself am sometimes fed up with Hatta’s policies. Hatta and I sometimes bug each other, but omitting Hatta from the Proclamation Text… that is the action of a coward!
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.
I’m not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That’s a coward. That’s not me.
Slow, skinny, and an utter countryside coward: I lived in dread of nettles, spiders, and the very sound of a wasp. As a victim, I was beneath the dignity of the bullies in my year but fair game to the ones in the year below.
The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
People would think I wouldn’t like Noel Coward. I think he was the original punk in a lot of ways. You know. Saucy. Doing his own thing.
People will talk about character arcs, but you look at the character arc of C-3PO from ‘Star Wars’ to ‘Return of the Jedi,’ and it’s a complete 180… he’s not so much of a coward and a fussbudget.
I’m a hero with coward’s legs.
It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.
A sniper’s primary goal is to eliminate ground threats for U.S. guys on the ground. Is that what a coward is? A person whose goal is to save the lives of his warrior brothers?
If I’m scared and I’m a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?
I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.
Hey, I’m like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz – I have other people do my dirty work while I skate around and get to be a nice guy. What can I say? I’m a coward.
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.
Even if you’ve been a coward all your life, death is a heroic act.
