Cowardice quotes

- Paul: He tells you: "Go out and die!". Oh, but if you'll pardon me, it's easier to say go out and die than it is to do it!
- Student: Coward!
- Paul: And it's easier to say it, than to watch it happen!

Lew Ayres - Paul
Arthur Gardner - Student

“I'd kick you in the balls if you had any.”
Ione Skye - Trudi

“I heard the only way a man can get shot in the back is running away.”
Walter Huston - Trampas

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

“- Ethne Eustace: What is it, Harry?
- Harry Feversham: Feathers of cowardice. Yesterday we were informed that our regement would be shipping out to Sudan. That we would be sent to war.
- Ethne Eustace: You don't know where they were sending you, you said it yourself. You did it for me. No one in their right mind could call you a coward....” (continue)(continue reading)

Kate Hudson - Ethne Eustace
Heath Ledger - Harry Feversham

“A man abandoned his family and wrote his son a story. He wouldn't be the first to cloak his cowardice in a flag of sacrifice.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Sherlock Holmes

“Erasing my memory and telling me to find the truth was cowardly. I won. So die like you promised.”
Min-sik Choi - Dae-su Oh

“- Jack Driscoll: I always knew you were nothing like the tough guy you play on the screen. I just never figured you for a coward.
- Bruce Baxter: Hey, pal. Hey, wake up. Heroes don't look like me - not in the real world. In th real world they got bad teeth, a bald spot, and a beer gut. I'm just an actor with a gun who's lost his motivation.”
Adrien Brody - Jack Driscoll
Kyle Chandler - Bruce Baxter

“- King George VI: Logue, we can't stay here all day.
- Lionel Logue: I need to wait for the right moment.
- King George VI: Logue, you're being a coward.
- Lionel Logue: You're damn right.”

Colin Firth - King George VI
Geoffrey Rush - Lionel Logue

“- Farouk: You have friend, I have friend. My friend go to your house, put bomb under your car and blow you to fucking sky!
- Darryl Kerrigan: What did he do?
- Farouk: He get scared and he leave!”
Costas Kilias - Farouk
Michael Caton-Jones - Darryl Kerrigan

“Her name is Danica Scott. She was the only witness present at the scene of your son's untimely demise. If not for her own self absorption and cowardice, she could have brought your son's killer to justice. Now it is you, who has a chance to bring her to justice. You alone can grant her the gift of life before she freezes to death.”

Tobin Bell - Jigsaw

“I don't want a coward in the family.”
Werner Herzog - Father

“If you know her shit and she knows yours, and at the end of the day if you still would rather give up than try, nothings ever going to be worth it.”
Dermot Mulroney - Nick Mercer

“A coward you are, Withnail! An expert on bulls you are not!”
Paul McGann - ... & I

“You're a coward. I mean it! You let life defeat you. You don't fight back.”

Alphonse Ethier - Cragg

“Will anyone raise his voice here now to accuse me? No. You're cowards, too, as well as hypocrites. But I don't blame you. The fault is mine as much as yours.”

Walter Pidgeon - Mr. Gruffydd

“I can't be here for this. This is wrong. Wrong time, wrong place... wrong life.”
Kimberly Warren - D

- Charlie Carbone: Look, Sal, we know that your upset.
- Salvatore "Sal" Maggio: It's not your fault.
- Charlie Carbone: What?
- Sal Maggio: A lion can raise a mouse, but the mouse is still a mouse. And you, Charlie, are that mouse.

Jerry O'Connell - Charlie Carbone
Christopher Walken - Salvatore 'Sal' Maggio

“That was the most pussified attempt I have ever seen.”

Bam Margera - Valo

“- Marshal Curly Wilcox: How about you, Mr. Hancock?
- Samuel Peacock: Peacock. I'd like to go on, brother. I want to reach the bosom of my dear family in Kansas City, Kansas, as quickly as possible; but, I may never reach that bosom if we go on... so, under the circumstances - you understand, brother - I think it's best we go back with the...” (continue)(continue reading)

George Bancroft - Marshal Curly Wilcox
Donald Meek - Samuel Peacock

“- Jack Baker: I didn't know whores were so philosophical.
- Susie Diamond: At least my brother's not my pimp. You know, I had you pegged for a loser the first time I saw you, but I was wrong. You're worse. You're a coward.”
Jeff Bridges - Jack Baker
Michelle Pfeiffer - Susie Diamond

“No man will call me a coward.”
Barry McEvoy - 2nd Maine Soldier

“They say that when a ship is sinking all the rats leave. Goodbye, rats! But you're mistaken if you think I'm sinking!”

Tyrone Power - Juan

“Were you with the German anti-fascists fighting us in Spain? No! Did you stop the Einsatzkommando at Poznan? No! You have the debilitating German disease, Woermann - Sentimental talk! It allows you to feel sensitive, superior, and yet stay safe because you take no action. Your sentimental suffering makes me sick!”
Gabriel Byrne - Kaempffer

“When all the blandishments of life are gone,
The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.”

George Sewell