#coward

That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#frighten #monsters #people #love

Ah, you coward! Look at you, running." "Actually, it's called improvising. ↗

— Jonathan Stroud

#humor #improvising #humor

They’re so brave," she said. "They’re all dead." "Only a coward would think of that," she said scornfully. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#cowards #death #heroes #the-bully-and-the-beast #death

But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived? ↗

— Markus Zusak

#cowardice

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

— Ouida

#cowardice #men #women #men

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 had to, to avoid risking exposure to physical violence. Shame never came into it. He embraced his new identity as a coward. He would run in the other direction. He would lie down and cry and put his arms over his head or play dead. It didn't matter what he had to do, he would do it and be glad. ↗

— Lev Grossman

#cowardice #fear #martial-heroics #physical-violence #playing-dead

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#inspirational #intolerance #tolerance #inspirational

Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp. ↗

— Juan Ruiz

#cowardly #crude #eloquence #gives #idle

Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit. ↗

— Jerome Cady

#fear #fellow #him #his #lets

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. ↗