Top 310 Cowardly Quotes & Sayings

There's no such thing as being cowardly in a fight. ~Edward Elric

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

He is never cowardly.

Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.

War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!

In the Great War, there is no room for the faint-hearted, the cowardly. A criminal or an anarchist will be better conditioned than a bourgeois, indecisive or cowardly man. They only need a push in the right direction. Only one who is born a hero or a warrior has a place in our order. Only the Lord of the Pure Will can march to the end, breaking in the gates of the City of Eternal Life. Because will, through its perseverance, creates the thing it contemplates. Only the Wild Hordes of Odin and Parsifal will achieve the Graal.

It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.

The Manifesto was a cowardly proceeding, the more I thought of it the less I liked it.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.

Tradition has made women cowardly.

It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.

Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.

To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.

No, I'm not at all adventurous. I'm terribly cowardly.

Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution?

It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.

Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis -- German National Socialism.

They who live without Love are dead. / But the worst of all deaths is this -- / That the loving soul be cowardly toward Love; / For perfect Love is never cowardly, / But claims its rights, which it lacks.

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.

It is not cowardly, quite the contrary, to seek to meet the adversary and know his intentions. However, it is cowardly, shameful and treasonable to lay down arms.

No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.

To not do what you can to protect someone, that's cowardly.

An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.

I wanted to work with Bert Lahr [the 'Cowardly Lion' in 'The Wizard of Oz'], and I did.

A penalty is a cowardly way to score.

Cowardly dogs bark loudest.

Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

I contend that the ethos of perpetual non-judgment is intellectually dishonest if not outright cowardly.

Lots of people think that bisexual means cowardly lesbian.

The honey is guarded by bees.. The rose has thorns.. To enjoy the sweet & beautiful you can NOT be cowardly.

Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it.

I've always been very averse to innuendo, especially sexual. I find it cowardly or something.

Once again, the hopeless cowardly Americans were back to repeat their cowardly act hiding behind a technological advance that God, most gracious, wanted it to be their curse and cause for shame.

I've always thought that guns are a cowardly tool in the hands of men and women trying to solve problems with each other. And cowardly in the hands of filmmakers. It's taken so lightly in films.

Spoilers are cowardly. They're just people who want to anesthetize themselves against the tension and the experience that the director and the artist have set up. If you go in there knowing what's going to happen, it's like reading the last page of the book. It's just cowardly.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.

The world is not for cowardly peoples.

It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all.

A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

Suicide isn't cowardly. I'll tell you what's cowardly; treating people so badly that they want to end their lives.

There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.

To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

There are times when it is more courageous to be cowardly.

Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.