Cowardly Quotes · Page 7

A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk. [Lat., Vulgus ignavum et nihil ultra verba ausurum.]

— Tacitus

I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It's to be scared and still face up to what scares…

— Louis L'Amour

There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base…

— James T. Rapier

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

— Joseph Epstein

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are…

— Jean Paul

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint…

— Robert Burns

War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.

— Anacreon

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

— Thomas Jefferson

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

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

— Werner Herzog

I wrote a letter to the magazine [Time magazine] pointing out that [Richard] Corliss's comparison of Christopher Lee's Saruman to Osama Bin…

— Viggo Mortensen

In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

— Sallust

The Manifesto was a cowardly proceeding, the more I thought of it the less I liked it.

— B. H. Roberts

I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Consistently, from the Hezbollah heartland, my message was that Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending ... among women and children," . "I…

— Jan Egeland

A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them…

— H. P. Blavatsky

We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

— James A. Michener

“I believe there is no other difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the…

— Gene Wolfe

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

— Tacitus

A brave nation fights only because it must; a cowardly nation fights because it can.

— Ilana Mercer

Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.

— Richard M. Nixon

Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.

— Michel de Montaigne

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