Zitat des Tages über Feigling / Coward:
Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.
It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.
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.
I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
The coward only threatens when he is safe.
The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.
There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.
I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.
The coward's weapon, poison.
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.
I am not a coward.
I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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.
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.
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
I run; I am a coward at heart. I swear, when I smell violence or aggression the coward comes out in me. I have no desire to fight anybody except myself.
What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet. No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled or uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of the people.
I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else.
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.
I couldn't write a happy movie or romantic comedy to save my life. Yes, Noel Coward's an idol, but his plays are serious to me. 'Private Lives' and 'Design for Living' both have an edge. Without psychoanalyzing myself, I think I exorcise my demons in my work.
The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
If I'm scared and I'm a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?
To be scrupulously honest, I only met Noel Coward twice in my life, and then briefly, but I heard so much about him at home when I was growing up that I always felt I knew him well.
Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.