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At least he had the guts to take what he wanted. Not like you – you’re just yellow. Tread Softly Stranger 1958 starring Diana Dors & George Baker & Terence Morgan & Patrick Allen & Jane Griffiths & Joseph Tomelty & Thomas Heathcote & Russell Napier & Maureen Delany & Betty Warren et al, director Gordon Parry
If Bush had been the one who had died, there’d be no loss of innocent life. That would have saved us a hundred million dollars. The media – everyone in the government and media – called it [suicide bomb] a cowardly act on the Iraqians’ part, because some Iraqian guy was going to drive a Toyota car-bomb and blow himself up in the process of trying to kill the President of the United States. Because that’s all they can really do since we are the imperialists of the New World Order – and we call that a cowardly act. Meanwhile, we’re launching Cruise missiles two hundred miles away from floating iron islands – who are the cowards again? Bill Hicks
You don’t know what it is to be a coward. Really a coward. To know it. The Desert Rats 1953 starring Richard Burton & James Mason & Robert Newton & Robert Douglas & Torin Thatcher & Chips Rafferty & Charles Davis & Ben Wright et al, director Robert Wise, old teacher to Burton
Anyone can play the coward once. Many of us do in fact and we forget about it afterwards. The Tenth Man 1988 starring Anthony Hopkins & Kristin Scott Thomas & Derek Jacobi & Cyril Cusack & Brenda Bruce & Timothy Watson & Paul Rogers & Peter Jonfield & Geoffrey Bayldon & Michael Attwell et al, director Jack Gold
America is nothing but a bunch of little chicken cowards. The vast American population, most of them, are cowards. Bill Cooper, The Hour
Cowards die many times before their deaths. Julius Caesar 2012 starring Paterson Joseph & Ray Fearon & Cyril Nri & Adjoa Andoh & Jeffery Kissoon et al, director Gregory Duran RSC production *****
For coward dogs.
Most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten
Runs far before them ...
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
As self-neglecting. William Shakespeare, Henry V II iv @ 68-69 & 73-74, Daughin to King Charles and court
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come. William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar II ii 32
Am I a coward? William Shakespeare, Hamlet II ii 545, Hamlet
But I am pigeon-livered, and lack gall
To make oppression bitter. ibid. II ii 552-553
O vengeance!
Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave,
That I, the son of a dear father murdered,
Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,
Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words,
And fall a-cursing, like a very drab.
A scullion! ibid. II ii 556-562
To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. Mahatma Gandhi
Fear has its use but cowardice has none. Mahatma Gandhi
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. Mahatma Gandhi
We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong. Theodore Roosevelt
Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey. Anna Julia Cooper
Cowardly dogs bark loudest. John Webster, The White Devil, 1612
The sea hates a coward! Eugene O’Neill, Mourning Becomes Electra, play 1931
For all men would be cowards if they durst. John Wilmot, 1647-80, A Satire Against Mankind
Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one half cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards. Were all brave, they would lead a very uneasy life; all would be continually fighting: but being all cowards, we go on very well. Samuel Johnson
Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated. (Coward & Hatred) George Bernard Shaw
You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you have openly set out to do. Mark Twain
We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. Mark Twain
To see the right and not do it is cowardice. Confucius
You have to have the discipline to do what a hero does ... Everybody is a coward more or less. Cus d’Amato
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. Abraham Lincoln
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. Rollo May
To be one’s self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. Irving Wallace
I’m a hero with coward’s legs. Spike Milligan
In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any man could have. Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Cowards in scarlet pass for men of war. George Granville, The She Gallants, 1696
‘Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.’ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
What is the face of a coward? The back of his head as he runs from the battle. House of Cards s3e3: Chapter 29, Frank, Netflix 2014
They [Nazi hierarchy] are all trying to come out of the war alive. They are essentially cowards. Rise of the Nazis: the Downfall II, historian, BBC 2022
The coward’s weapon – poison. Phineas Fletcher
It’s amazing how many men are actually physically cowards. Play for Today: Under the Skin, BBC 1982