Books Quote by Edward Abbey

Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a…

— Matthew Scully

A moral coward is one who is afraid to do what he thinks is right because others will disapprove or laugh. Remember that all…

— Thomas S. Monson

Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings…

— Edmund White

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.

— Jose Rizal

“The man who grounds his action on another's cowardice, is essentially a coward himself.”

— George MacDonald

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

— Ernest Hemingway

“I write characters that are ultimately flawed. Individual morality motivates character action. They all have a different view of right and wrong. Regardless of…

— Peter P. Sellers

I've seen men who thought they were brave turn out to be shameful cowards. Other people, who thought they were capable of the utmost…

— Jerzy Andrzejewski

“When a man’s love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding palate make his moral choices, that…

— Matthew Scully

Unless the character is suffering from tremendous self doubt or pangs of conscience, you have to get morally behind the character and their values.

— Mark Pellegrino

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

— Milan Kundera

There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to…

— Edwin Percy Whipple