Famous quotes containing the word cowardly:
“That’s how the Germans are.... The aristocrats at the top hard as glass, cold as ice, servants of the King, the working masses willing, pliable, sentimental, susceptible to brutality, the middle class educated and cowardly to the point of servility.”
—Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)
“I know you’re here.... What’s wrong? Are you afraid to speak up? Is that all you’re good for, to frighten women? Well, I’m not afraid of you. Whoever heard of a cowardly ghost?”
—Philip Dunne (1908–1992)
“There is a hatred of lies and dissimulation that is rooted in a sensitive principle of honor, and there is another such hatred that is rooted in cowardice, inasmuch as lies are forbidden by a divine commandment. Too cowardly to lie....”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)