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Tag Name "Cowardly" (145)

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Cowardly dogs bark loudest.
John Webster
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For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not to himself. Nor does beauty and strength of body, when dwelling in a base and cowardly man, appear comely, but the reverse of comely, making the possessor more conspicuous, and manifesting forth his cowardice.
Plato
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The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.
Mahatma Gandhi
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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
Quintus Curtius Rufus
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I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
Robert Burns
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remember that though humility, without firmness, may be cowardly, yet courage without humility is presumptuous.
Marie Angelique Arnauld
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Lots of people think that bisexual means cowardly lesbian.
Sandra Bernhard
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Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, cowardly, and mentally warped that will be if it turns out to be true.
Mary Ann Shaffer
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dreams must not take the place of actual life, nor constitute themselves a cowardly escape from it, but become rather a sanctuary in which the overdriven mind and nerves may take refuge, a country on the outer edge of this confusion, bright with the shadow of eternity beyond.
Maude Meagher
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There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.
James T. Rapier
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I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
Michel de Montaigne
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To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
Jeremy Collier
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Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.
Miguel de Cervantes
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It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.
John Bercow
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The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I've always been very averse to innuendo, especially sexual. I find it cowardly or something.
Norm MacDonald
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The honey is guarded by bees.. The rose has thorns.. To enjoy the sweet & beautiful you can NOT be cowardly.
Joseph Simmons
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There are times when it is more courageous to be cowardly.
Norman Reilly Raine
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Experience shows that after a disaster it is particularly difficult with the Americans, who appear to be quite cowardly despite their Rambo films.
Ken Bates
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You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation.
Octave Mirbeau
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There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others
Lafcadio Hearn
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He is never cowardly.
Paulo Coelho
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