I'm a hero with coward's legs.
Spike Milligan

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
Sallust

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.
Dolores Ibarruri

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.
Junius

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Voltaire

It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.
Kenneth Williams

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
Alfred Hitchcock

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Bertrand Russell

Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.
Andrew Taylor Still

Oh, Mr Coward, sir - I could never have an affair with you, because you remind me of my father!
Kenneth More

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
Laurence Sterne

President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.
Kevin Costner

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan Poe

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
Andrew Jackson

The coward only threatens when he is safe.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
George Sewell

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
Bertrand Russell

The coward's weapon, poison.
John Fletcher

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.
Gene Hackman

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
Jose Bergamin