cowardice Quotes

“It may therefore be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion, but when I see a fellow creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.”

― Confucius, Analects

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“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”

― Albert Camus, The Fall

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“It's not through obedience that men go out of their way to get killed—nor through obedience that they kill. … Except cowards.”

― André Malraux, Man's Fate

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“a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.”

― William Faulkner, Light in August

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“I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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“I'm very brave generally . . . only to-day I happen to have a headache.”

― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

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“Here all suspicion needs must be abandoned, All cowardice must needs be here extinct.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

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“Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry V

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“If you can't beat it or corrupt it, you pretend it was your idea in the first place.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

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