Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don’t have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with.

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

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows...

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?”Of course. Who said it?”I don’t know.”He was probably a coward,’ she said. “He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The...

As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever or whomever he...

When I had thought for a moment that I wasn’t going to be able to do it, that I was a coward, and then found out that I could do it, you can’t imagine how...

If you don’t make a few ememies now and then, you’re a coward-or worse. Besides, it as worth it to see his reaction. Oh, he was angry!- Angela to Eragon

Michael Ledeen—a contributing editor of National Review and a Freedom Scholar at the influential neoconservative think tank American Enterprise Institute—wrote on the National Review blog in November 2006: ‘I had and have no involvement with...

The most foolish description of the young is that they are rebellious. The truth is that they are a fellowship of cowards.

Be not intimidated…nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and...

All of us, I suppose, like to believe that in a moral emergency we will behave like the heroes of our youth, bravely and forthrightly, without thought of personal loss or discredit. Certainly that was...

We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or an earthquake or some other calamity, and at once courage...

It’s obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O’Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing...

The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect … and though rich men’s crimes escape the law, protected as they are by...

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Haters and bullies are always cowards, you know. They like to pick on little guys.

Mission motto, sir,” said Carrot cheerfully. “Morituri Nolumus Mori. Rincewind suggested it.””I imagine he did,” said Lord Vetinari, observing the wizard coldly. “And would you care to give us a colloquial translation, Mr Rincewind?””Er…” Rincewind...

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.

Fight or flight? If I had wings, there’d be no choice. But since I don’t have wings, I have to rely on my cape, and a long running start.

She had been born knowing that boldness erased fear, while cowardice invited it and earned her only more ill treatment. No matter how she shook with dread in private, she would never show fear before...

Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence … I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor…

How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured servitude, inflict compulsion and blows—this at least produces a connection, fury and a...

The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.

Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so...

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.–“Wanda

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Humour is for them the all-consoling and (mark this) the all-excusing, grace of life. Hence, it is invaluable as a means of destroying shame. If a man simply lets others pay for him, he is...

It’s my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

Blood has an oder faint but distinct, of conceit and modesty, of courage and cowardice, of charity and greed, of faith and doubt, in short the fragrance of what we might have been and the...

… the courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the ‘other side’…

Excuses are a promise of repetition.

There is no love.” Because, standing in the shadows of the big, grand, and powerful existence of love, his small spirit is left feeling even smaller and less significant. And so he chooses to deny...

The big, burly oaf offended my girl, so without hesitation I rushed to her defense. I did, however, make a few stops along the way, and by the time I got home and back, the...

You can’t be a man and a coward at the same time.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.

people often mistake cautiousness for cowardice. and vice versa.

The hoopoe said: ‘Your heart’s congealed like ice;When will you free yourself from cowardice?Since you have such a short time to live here,What difference does it make? What should you fear?The world is filth and...

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.

You’re gutless. It’s how you were made. And that’s not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you’ve never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as...

The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: “Human Nature”.

He who fights with guns and knives is a coward! For how easy is it to kill with the single pull of a trigger? And how does human flesh stand to a sharpened metal? Even...

I’d never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn’t see how that wasn’t cowardice…

Those who are brave, are the greatest cowards of all. For they fear failure.