Coward

Famous quotes containing the word coward:

    “Eyes, that are the frail’st and softest things,
    Who shut their coward gates on atomies.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer—that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffling, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.”
    —William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

    “Mad about the boy,
    I know it’s stupid to be mad about the boy,
    I’m so ashamed of it
    But must admit
    The sleepless nights I’ve had about the boy.
    On the Silver Screen
    He melts my foolish heart in every single scene.”
    —Noël Coward (1899–1973)