#cowardice

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#cowardice #halfway #just #lies #rashness

Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow. ↗

— Veronica Franco

#act #amongst #be the first #cowardice #death

Some Saian mountaineer Struts today with my shield. I threw it down by a bush and ran When the fighting got hot. Life seemed somehow more precious. It was a beautiful shield. I know where I can buy another Exactly like it, just as round. ↗

— Archilochus

#humor #beauty

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

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

— Scylar Tyberius

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

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

— Patrick Ness

#cowardice #responsibility #men

Life is too short to cower. ↗

— Claire Cross

#cowardice #live #courage

Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#cowardice #great-men #greatness #courage

When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters. ↗

— Iain Pears

#civilization #cowardice #denunciation #deportation #evil

If you run from enemy fire, I'll make you wash dishes for the rest of your life! ↗

— Naoki Urasawa

#threat #life