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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. For every flowering thought there will be a page… — John Steinbeck
When writing goes painfully, when it’s hideously difficult, and one feels real despair (ah, the despair, silly as it is, is real!)–then naturally one ought… — Joyce Carol Oates
Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents — Albert Camus
We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will… — Antonin Sertillanges
People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this… — David Mitchell
And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love, and if you… — Saul Bellow
Think of the beginning of the story of the beginning of everything: Adam (without Eve and without divine guidance) names the animals. Continuing his work,… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a blow it must… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It's not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,' said Simmons. 'Everyone knows you don't fight like a gentleman.' 'That might be called an oxymoron,' Ramses… — Barbara Mertz
Small Man can be a very funny or a very tiresome Tour Companion, depending on how this kind of thing grabs you. He gambles, he… — Diana Wynne Jones
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated. — Ambrose Bierce
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. — Voltaire
Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life with a successive life is… — Lionel Shriver
Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk?… — L. Frank Baum
Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt. — Darren Shan
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick… — Thomas Carlyle
‎"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to… — C.S. Lewis
Your cowardly self-delusions about “love” when you know as well as I do that there’s never been anything between us but contempt and distrust and… — Richard Yates
Because that, more than any monster, was what Sam had feared: that he was weak and cowardly. He had a terrible fear of being afraid. — Michael Grant
We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we… — Julian Barnes
I tried many, many times to run away while my little brother was asleep. But at those moments, I always ended up thinking this-- My… — Jun Mochizuki
One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts. — C.S. Lewis
It must be remembered that in those great days I was considered to be an "integrationist" - this was never, quite, my own idea of… — James A. Baldwin
Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we’re simultaneously cowardly and arrogant. We don’t know… — Chuck Klosterman

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