O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!
Imagination makes cowards of us all.
Cowards' weapons neither cut nor pierce.
The world has no room for cowards.
Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.
. . . Really, there is no greater sin than cowardice; cowards are never saved - that is sure. I can stand everything else but not that.
If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt.
Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
Luck is everything. . . My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.
I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
Fame is an empty noise. Let us put our ears to the centuries that have gone: we no longer hear anything; those who, at another time, shall walk among our urns, shall hear no more. The good - that is what we must pursue, whatever the price, preferring the title of a dead hero to that of a living coward.
It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.
Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.
I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.
Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.
You're not a coward just because you don't want to hurt people.
A coward never forgives.
It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.
Fear doesn't necessarily mean that we have to stop. It doesn't mean that we are failures. It doesn't mean that we are cowards.