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222 Cowardly quotes by 188 unique authors

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. — John Steinbeck
Suicide isn't cowardly. I'll tell you what's cowardly; treating people so badly that they want to end their lives. — Ashley Purdy
When a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to leave the war behind you in minefields that hit women and children and… — Paul McCartney
Consistently, from the Hezbollah heartland, my message was that Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending ... among women and children," . "I heard they were… — Jan Egeland
Remember, the only thing to fear is Fear, and - well, don't even fear Fear, for he's a cowardly chap at the best, who will… — William Walker Atkinson
I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right… — Mehmet Oz
Look, this debate is basic: it's small government vs. big government. So how cowardly do folks like Blood and Frank Rich have to be that… — Greg Gutfeld
Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice. — Mahatma Gandhi
No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate. — Michel de Montaigne
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited. — Sallust
The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history. — Herman Wouk
To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a… — Primo Levi
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory… — Cyril Connolly
An agnostic is a cowardly atheist. — Studs Terkel
It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites.… — Criss Jami
A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to… — Adolf Hitler
Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their… — Hermann Goring
A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. — Quintus Curtius Rufus
It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me. — John Bercow
War spares not the brave, but the cowardly. — Anacreon
No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain… — Michel de Montaigne
Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue. — Michel de Montaigne
The most seditious is the most cowardly. — Tacitus
To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition. — Victoria Woodhull

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