Cowards

Famous quotes containing the word cowards:

“Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.”
—Max Beerbohm (1872–1956)

“One writer says that Brown’s peculiar monomania made him to be “dreaded by the Missourians as a supernatural being.” Sure enough, a hero in the midst of us cowards is always so dreaded. He is just that thing. He shows himself superior to nature. He has a spark of divinity in him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)