"To elope is cowardly; it is running away……" — Oscar Wilde
"To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life."
More Cowardly Quotes
- I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion,… — Conrad Black
- The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too… — Napoleon Bonaparte
- We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of… — Jean de la Bruyere
- Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp… — Robert Burns
- War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. — Thomas Carlyle
- To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
- The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and… — George Stillman Hillard
- When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only… — Oswald Chambers
- I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances. — Thomas Jefferson
- I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten… — Adolf Hitler
- The honey is guarded by bees.. The rose has thorns.. To enjoy the sweet & beautiful you can NOT be… — Joseph Simmons
- Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned. — Ignazio Silone