Cowardice quotes

“They've got you wrong. You're not a coward. Stupid, maybe. But not a coward.”

Bruce Spence - The Gyro Captain

“- King Louis: Cowards! Twenty men run from four?
- Lieutenant Andre: The corridor nullifies our numbers, and nobody has the stomach to fight the captain!”
Leonardo DiCaprio - King Louis
Edward Atterton - Lieutenant Andre

“- Rayden: Kahn, you hide behind a human?
- Shao-Kahn: Why not, Lord Rayden? You've hidden behind them your entire pathetic life!”
James Remar - Rayden
Brian Thompson - Shao-Kahn

“- Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana: We will break camp and chase the coward!
- General Castrillon: He's not running. He's on his way here.”

Emilio Echevarría - Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Castulo Guerra - General Castrillon

“I must leave. Zis Hotel is deteriorating rapidly.”

Peter Sellers - Clouseau

“- Little Bill Daggett: Well, sir, you are a cowardly son of a bitch! You just shot an unarmed man!
- Bill Munny: Well, he should have armed himself if he's going to decorate his saloon with my friend.”
Gene Hackman - Little Bill Daggett
Clint Eastwood - Bill Munny

“I am a coward, Doctor. If I'd been anything but a soldier I might have lived my whole life and concealed it.”
John Clements - Harry Faversham

“- Terek Murad: My poor brother, how many militia did you kill?
- Vasilov: You have to understand, there were 50 of them. Plus the Americans...
- Terek Murad: Yes, but how many did you kill?
- Vasilov: None.”
David Hayman - Terek Murad
Peter Sullivan - Vasilov

“I am leaving the valley with regret toward those who have helped me here, and who have let me help them. But, for the rest of you, those of you who have only proved that I have wasted my time among you, I have only this to say. There is not one among you who has had the courage to come to me and accuse me of wrongdoing.”

Walter Pidgeon - Mr. Gruffydd

“I lost a lot of things in life... but never a fight for money. I was trading Warrants for a close-out on old bad debts. The eight grand I was going to clear was enough to maintain the old man in a good, clean rest home for three years. The late round tank job - enough to convince myself I wasn't a complete coward.”
Josh Hartnett - Dwight 'Bucky' Bleichert

“- Frank McLaury: You're first on my list Holiday. Spend the rest of your time expecting to see me.
- Doc Holiday: McLaury, seeing you would be a nice change. I understand most of your enemies got it in the back.”
Rex Linn - Frank McLaury
Dennis Quaid - Doc Holliday

“- Captain Klaus Woermann: What's all the shooting in the village, huh?
- Major Kaempffer: A civilian to be interrogated. He resisted, and was shot!
- Captain Klaus Woermann: Another civilian! The courageous Einsatzkommondo again is victorious!”
Jürgen Prochnow - Woermann
Gabriel Byrne - Kaempffer

“Of course one soldier more or less doesn't make any difference, you know. That's why I'm making thousands and thousands of troops for England. See? Good strong fellows who won't be afraid as I was. I was afraid. That's why I ran away, you know.”

Morton Lowry - Traumatized Young Soldier

“Nobody D.O.R.’s after eleven weeks!”
Lisa Blount - Lynette Pomeroy

“- Thorin Oakenshield: Hush. You are no coward, my friend. I am sorry I so named you.
- Bilbo Baggins: This is not important...
- Thorin Oakenshield: I was wrong. You did understand war. It was I who did not... until now.
- Bilbo Baggins: Farewell, King Under the Mountain.
- Thorin Oakenshield: Child of the kindly West, I have come to know, if...” (continue)(continue reading)
Hans Conried - Thorin Oakenshield
Orson Bean - Bilbo

“- McKenzie: I'm not a coward, you know.
- Jake Malloy: I know that. But you've got to remind yourself now and then.”
Robert Prosky - McKenzie
Sylvester Stallone - Jake Malloy

“- Annabelle Lee: Why didn't you enlist?
- Johnnie Gray: They wouldn't take me.
- Annabelle Lee: Please don't lie, I don't want you to speak to me again until you are in uniform.”
Marion Mack - Annabelle Lee
Buster Keaton - Johnnie Gray

“Somewhere along the line, you changed. You stopped being you. You let people stick a finger in your face and tell you you're no good. And when things got hard, you started looking for something to blame, like a big shadow.”

Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa

“I can't believe I'm talking to the same Sean Armstrong that I traveled all over this great country with. A man of strength and courage, who defeated every vile, vulgar opponent he ever faced. And now, this fearless giant is cowering because of two little innocent children!”
Sherman Hemsley - Burt Wilson

“You knew they were innocent, but you were crazy to see them hanged. And to make me watch it. I could've stopped you with a gun, just as any other animal can be stopped. But I couldn't do it because I'm a coward.”

William Eythe - Gerald Tetley

“I'd rather die like a man than live like a coward.”
50 Cent - Marcus

“- Demetrius Hicks: Why are you still alive and your homies are dead?
- Overdose: I was in the attic.
- Demetrius Hicks: Doin' what?
- Overdose: Hidin'.
- Demetrius Hicks: What kind of coward shit is that, man?”

Larenz Tate - Demetrius Hicks
Malieek Straughter - Overdose

“The eyes of the world are upon us every day. We must show no weakness, no moral cowardice. What would become of France if we lost the trust of the French?”
Wojciech Pszoniak - Robespierre

“You're 79 kilos of gutless white meat, and that's why you can't think of a better plan.”
Radha Mitchell - Carolyn Fry

“The only difference between a hero and a coward is the hero's willing to go for it.”
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa