cowardice Quotes

“My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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“They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener; and so when each had said his say, my mother made them a speech.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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“The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

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“That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard II

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“this cult of the future is not only a weakness but a cowardice of the age.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

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“in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

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“Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.”

― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

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“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“It was as though, so long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice, since all people are cowards and naturally prefer any kind of treachery because it has a...”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

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“But when you disarm them, you at once offend them by showing that you distrust them, either for cowardice or for want of loyalty, and either of these opinions breeds hatred against you.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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