Cowardice Quotes

It had been her experience that the liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor.

'By itself,' he said, 'pain is not always enough.
There are occasions when a human being will stand out against pain, even to the point of death.
But for everyone there is something unendurable--something that cannot be contemplated.
Courage and cowardice are not involved.
If you are falling from a height it is not cowardly to clutch at a rope.
If you have come up from deep water it is not cowardly to fill your lungs with air.
It is merely an instinct which cannot be destroyed.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

For whoever doesn’t overcome the cowardice inside themselves will die of fear to the end of their days.

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.

“A coward," he declared with dignity, when he'd stopped coughing and had got his breath back, "dies a hundred times. A brave man dies but once. But Dame Fortune favours the brave and holds the coward in contempt."

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all