Famous quotes containing the word coward:
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fearnot absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea!incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“Dont put your daughter on the stage,
Mrs. Worthington,
Dont put your daughter on the stage.”
—Noël Coward (18991973)
“A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmerthat 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 (17781830)
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