It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.

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

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.’ – facing his assassin

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

The coward threatens when he is safe

The coward threatens when he is safe.

I’d rather die like a man, than live like a coward

Only cowards insult dying majesty.