#coward

Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

#bottom #courage #cowardice #easier #enter

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence. ↗

— John Fowles

#atheist #coward #intelligence #intelligence

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

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#fear #children

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

— Scylar Tyberius

#bullies #cowardice #haters #life-lesson #life

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die. ↗

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

#die #fight #hate #i #into

I was a coward and a slave. I say this without the slightest embarrassment. Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#slave #age

It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing. ↗

— Kenneth Williams

#coward #emulate #envied #his #i

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#cowardice #responsibility #men

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

— Gustave Flaubert

#french #love #men #women #love

Where the brave don't have the guts to question their immortal duty, cowards are rash about survival. ↗

— Bauvard

#cowardice #funny #humor #rashness #courage