It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly Can never know what true friendship means.

I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks more girls better pay and greater freedom than the soldier but at this stage of the game having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward and freedom will be defended.

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.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

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

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear by childish faith and by cowardice.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides for if they should decide to do so they would be able to fight you until death and to prove that I speak the truth amongst so many women I will be the first to act setting an example for them to follow.

The coward sneaks to death the brave live on.

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

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and while it is true that the suicide braves death he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Because at bottom I'm interested in fear and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction where you can enter people's heads.

Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one it gives eloquence to the mute it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.

Falsehood is cowardice the truth courage.

Killing yourself is a major commitment it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

I always disliked dogs those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.