Coward Quotes - Page 13

• Casi todos los hombres son cobardes si se enfrentan al terror adecuado.

  E. W. Howe

  Men, Terror, Every Man

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• I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live

  Jodi Picoult

  Demasiado

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• When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

  Chinua Achebe

  Fighting, Men, Hungry

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Apr 09, 2016

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• Only cowards hide behind silence.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Silence

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• La envidia es el lado cobarde del odio, Y todos sus caminos son sombríos y desolados.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hate, Envy, Way

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• Oh, la bebida es poderosa! desvela secretos, convierte la esperanza en un hecho, pone a los cobardes a boxear, quita cargas a los agobiados, descubre partes en gente estúpida y enseña artes desconocidas. ¿Qué lengua cuelga fuego cuando el tazón la aviva? ¿Qué desdichado tan pobre que el vino ensancha su alma?

  Horace

  Art, Stupid, Wine

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.362, Delphi Classics

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• Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.

  Dean Koontz

  Perseverance, Men, Soul

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• Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane.

  Germaine Greer

  Military, Real, Hero

  "Daddy, We Hardly Knew You". Book by Germaine Greer, 1989.

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• Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders insipid, nor the soldier, of whom it makes a coward, nor the woman whose beauty and sensibility it mars, nor the mother, who has a son to lose, nor the rulers of men, who have no surer pledge of the fidelity of their subjects than religion.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Mother, Son, Men

  "The Genius of Christianity". Book by François-René de Chateaubriand, Part IV, Book VI, Chapter XII. Translated by Charles I. White, D.D. Baltimore: John Murphy, 1871, p. 665, 1802.

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• A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.

  Chinua Achebe

  Running, Fighting, May

  Chinua Achebe (1986). “Arrow of God”, p.50, Heinemann

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• Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit.

  Stefan Zweig

  Pain, Passion, Flesh

  Stefan Zweig (1955). “Stories and Legends”

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• The saints were cowards who stood by to see Christ crucified: they should have flung themselves Upon the Roman spears, and died in vain-- The grandest death, to die in vain--for love Greater than sways the forces of the world!

  George Eliot

  Jesus, Should Have, Saint

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4137, Delphi Classics

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• The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

  Aristotle

  Men, Brave, Foolhardy

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.54

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• We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Panic, He Man

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4511, Delphi Classics

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• La honestidad fue una trampa inventada para atar las manos de los pícaros, para que los tontos y los cobardes pudieran sentarse seguros en el poder y señorearlo sin control por encima de sus superiores.

  Thomas Otway

  Honesty, Hands, Safe

  1682 Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act1, sc.1.

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• Tenía tantas dudas como los demás. De pie en la línea de salida, todos somos cobardes.

  Alberto Salazar

  Softball, Running, Doubt

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• Morir para evitar las penas de la pobreza, del amor o de cualquier cosa desagradable, no es propio de un valiente, sino de un cobarde.

  Aristotle

  Sad, Suicide, Pain

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• There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.

  Aaron Hill

  Strength, Hero, Trials

  Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.15

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• Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions."

  Coventry Patmore

  Strength, Believe, Men

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.19, Lulu.com

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• En el mundo no hay sitio para los cobardes. Todos debemos estar dispuestos de algún modo a esforzarnos, a sufrir, a morir.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Courage, Victory And Defeat, Suffering

  "The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson".

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• Señor, yo no soy un hombre valiente ... La verdad es que soy un cobarde cobarde absoluta. Nunca he estado al sonido de un disparo o a la vista de una batalla en toda mi vida que no estuviera tan asustado que tuviera sudor en las palmas de las manos.

  George S. Patton

  Courage, Men, Sight

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• Los hombres más valientes de un ejército son sus cobardes. La muerte que no encontrarían a manos del enemigo la encontrarán a manos de sus oficiales, sin inmutarse.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Army, Men, Hands

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “Civil War Stories”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• El ímpetu formaba parte de la euforia y el agotamiento del siglo XX que Coward descodificó para los británicos pero tomó prestado al por mayor de los estadounidenses.

  John Lahr

  Momentum, Exhilaration, Century

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• The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.

  David Gemmell

  Men, Two, Reason

  "Stormrider". Book by David Gemmell, ch. 4, 2002.

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• I think that for the coward every day carries a kind of death.

  David Gemmell

  Thinking, Kind, Carrie

  "Stormrider". Book by David Gemmell, ch. 4, 2002.

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