Best Cowardly Words
222 Cowardly quotes by 188 unique authors
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To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.
— Oscar Wilde
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Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.
— Seneca the Elder
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Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing.
— Vladimir K. Zworykin
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Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!
— Statius
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Once again, the hopeless cowardly Americans were back to repeat their cowardly act hiding behind a technological advance that God, most gracious, wanted it to…
— Saddam Hussein
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It is cowardly to commit suicide. The English often kill themselves. It is a malady caused by the humid climate.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution?
— Saint Francis de Sales
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The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.
— Ludwig Borne
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All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong. Then, within the…
— George Zebrowski
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In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection…
— George Bernard Shaw
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If the Cowardly Lion were on RuPaul’s Drag Race, so much of my childhood would be less nightmarish.
— Julie Klausner
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We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where…
— Robert Crumb
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Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong.
— Doc Hastings
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If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it…
— Werner Herzog
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A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
— Elbert Hubbard
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It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
— Charles Kingsley
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It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip,…
— Lawrence G. Lovasik
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We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what…
— Bill Maher
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I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.
— David Mamet
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
— Thomas Mann
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