| Author |
Quotes |
| Aesop | Only cowards insult dying majesty. |
| Bishop Westcott | Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. |
| Dr George Sewell | When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on. |
| Eliza Cook | The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start from the slightest pain or equal foe. |
| Ernest Hemingway | Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. |
| Euripides | Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it. |
| Francois Rabelais | You are like the eels of Melun; you cry out before you are skinned. |
| George Bernard Shaw | Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. |
| George Crabbe | The coward never on himself relies, But to an equal for assistance flies. |
| George Sewell | When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on. |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The coward only threatens when he is safe. |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The coward threatens when he is safe. |
| John Gay | Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. |
| Junius | It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so. |
| Lord Moran | Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does. What passes through his mind is his own affair. |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave. |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Cowards can never be moral. |
| Miguel de Cervantes | Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward. |
| Ovidius Naso | To wish for death is a coward's part. |
| Quintus Curtius Rufus | A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. |
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