Cowardly Quotes · Page 5

“Oh, yes, men are very simple and obvious in some ways, you know. They generally react in the way one would expect…

— Barbara Pym

“[...] god's cowardly, it doesn't want to know or take responsibility for what it's doing.”

— Steve Aylett

My reading as a child was lazy and cowardly, and it is yet. I was afraid of encountering, in a book, something…

— John Updike

I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.

— Thomas Jefferson

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never…

— Cyril Connolly

“The brave with all of their weaknesses are better than the cowardly with all of their strengths.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

— Franz Grillparzer

“Cowardly thoughts, anxious hesitation, Womanish timidity, timorous complaints Won’t keep misery away from you And will not set you free.”

— Edith Hahn Beer a

A love to Christ which is so cowardly and selfish that it is unwilling to proclaim by a public confession its faith…

— Abbott Eliot Kittredge

If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the…

— Werner Herzog

Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am…

— Miguel de Cervantes

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while…

— Jean de la Bruyere

All this we see, and, therefore, instead of inanely repeating the old formula, Respect the law, we say, Despise law and all…

— Peter Kropotkin

They who live without Love are dead. / But the worst of all deaths is this -- / That the loving soul…

— Hadewijch

Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'd never wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. How…

— Sherman Alexie

“Nada em mim foi covarde, nem mesmo as desistências. Desistir, ainda que não pareça, foi meu grande gesto de coragem. Some like…

— Anonymous

[S]ervants of darkness had no lasting joy in their service. In all of them the will for darkness was a perversion of…

— Olaf Stapledon

Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It…

— Cyril Connolly

Look, this debate is basic: it's small government vs. big government. So how cowardly do folks like Blood and Frank Rich have…

— Greg Gutfeld

They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and…

— Anne Frank

I was stricken by news and television pictures coming from the United States this morning. It is impossible to fully comprehend the…

— Jean Chretien

If I had the ability to back in time and not love you I wouldnt do it. By loving you and losing…

— Becca B

I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the…

— Adolf Hitler

“So answer me, are you merely a cowardly Moses, pointing the way to the Promised Land but poisoned by doubt and so…

— Tony Vigorito

“I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what…

— Charles Dickens

I wanted to work with Bert Lahr [the 'Cowardly Lion' in 'The Wizard of Oz'], and I did.

— Norman Lear

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he…

— Oswald Chambers

“You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue.”

— Dee Remy

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work.…

— David Mamet

The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.

— Herman Wouk

“Too cowardly to be a warrior, but not enough of a coward to lie down and roll over like a good doggy.”

— David Mitchell

The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at…

— Chris Cleave

“It's too cowardly, and besides, I don't have the courage. [on why he hadn't killed himself yet]”

— Nick Drake

“And it was cowardly for a man to say he would kill himself, but Septimus had fought; he was brave; he was…

— Virginia Woolf

I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not…

— Mehmet Oz

“and said that these councils were only ever resorted to as ‘a cowardly proceeding’ intended to distribute blame.”

— Andrew Roberts

“A brick could be used to instill courage in the cowardly. But training must begin at birth, and the weak identified while…

— Jarod Kintz

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be…

— Margaret Mead

Suicide isnt cowardly, wanna know something cowardly? Treating someone so bad, that they want to end their life. Think before yu speak

— Marina Hanna

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

— Joseph Epstein