Cowardice quotes

“- Will Graham: I need your opinion now.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: Then here's one... you stink of fear under that cheap lotion. You stink of fear Will, but you're not a coward.”
Edward Norton - Will Graham
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Dr. Hannibal Lecter

“- Okelo: You gave an interview on BBC saying that Amin was evil. Are you mad? What about Kinnu? What about Meena? Do you ever think of them?
- Jay: What should I have done? Remain silent? That is the coward's way!
- Okelo: Don't talk to me about cowards! That's what you are. You're not leaving because you're scared to leave. You are scared of...” (continue)(continue reading)
Konga Mbandu - Okelo
Roshan Seth - Jay (Meena's dad)

“- Lorna Campbell: What are you going to do? Sit in this grotty flat feeling sorry for yourself, or are you going to get out there and save your country?
- Johnny English: ...I'm going to sit in the flat.”
Natalie Imbruglia - Lorna Campbell
Rowan Atkinson - Johnny English

“Goodbye, Kemp. I always said you were a dirty little coward. You're a dirty sneaking little rat as well. Goodbye.”

Claude Rains - Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man

“Sinbad, you're not a very complicated guy. All someone has to do is imagine the most gutless course of action and you're bound to take it!”
Catherine Zeta-Jones - Marina

“- Gen. Dolgorucki: Why are you not in uniform?
- Lev Andreyev: My lungs are weak.
- Gen. Dolgorucki: Perhaps it is your courage that is weak.”
Emil Jannings - Gen. Dolgorucki
William Powell - Lev Andreyev

“I've done the vilest things - the foulest things - but I've done them... superbly.”
Uma Thurman - June Miller

“Cowards die many times before their death; the valiant only taste death but once.”
Wentworth Miller - Young Coleman Silk

“- Phil Taylor: Let's just give up. Let's get out of here. Let's get ourselves a wagon master and go home. Let's go east. What do you say?
- Cattle Rustler: I say you're a bunch of gutless lily-livered, yellow-belly eastern sissies. All you've done since you got here was whine and complain. Now why don't you go back and leave the west to the real...” (continue)(continue reading)
Richard Lewis - Phil Taylor
John Dennis Johnston - Cattle Rustler

“It's turned you into a coward. A man who denies his own conscience. A coward without the moral courage to prevent an atrocity. You offend me.”
Sir Patrick Stewart - Jean-Luc Picard

“- Tom Powers: Hiding behind Ma's skirts, like always.
- Mike Powers: Better than hiding behind a machine gun.”
James Cagney - Tom Powers
Donald Cook - Mike Powers

- "Wild Bill" Donovan: I once thought this man was a coward.
- Sgt. "Big Mike" Wynn: A coward, sir? From now on everytime I hear the name of Plunkett, I'll snap to attention and salute.

George Brent - "Wild Bill" Donovan
Alan Hale - Sgt. "Big Mike" Wynn

“- Engywook: Next is the Magic Mirror Gate. Atreyu has to face his true self.
- Falkor: So what? That won't be too hard for him.
- Engywook: Oh, that's what everyone thinks! But kind people find out that they are cruel. Brave men discover that they are really cowards! Confronted by their true selves, most men run away screaming!”
Sydney Bromley - Engywook
Alan Oppenheimer - Falkor

“- General Zod: Son of Jor-El. We were beginning to think you were a coward.
- Superman: I'm not a coward, Zod.
- Ursa: Let him prove it!
- General Zod: Possibly not. It is extremely likely you are merely a fool. Like father, like son.
- Superman: Somehow, I just can't hear you, Zod.
- General Zod: Then die, as you deserve to!”
Terence Stamp - General Zod
Christopher Reeve - Superman
Sarah Douglas - Ursa

“That techno-rock you guys listen to is gutless.”
Nicolas Cage - Randy

“Morality - the last bastion of a coward.”
Robert Carlyle - Col. Ives

“Who has to use a gun and hold people prisoner? You're not a man. You're a coward.”
Geena Davis - Phyllis

“- Hoggle: You have to understand my position. I'm a coward. And Jareth scares me.
- Sarah: What kind of a position is that?
- Hoggle: No position! That's my point.”
Shari Weiser - Hoggle
Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Sarah

“- Lucien Cordier: Didn't your regiment squash the peanut pickers' revolt?
- George Le Peron: Sure did.
- Lucien Cordier: It sure took guts. All those niggers armed with clubs. And all you had was machine guns.”
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier
Jean-Pierre Marielle - L'adjudant Georges Le Peron

“You lack the courage of your convictions, sir. Do it!”
Brad Pitt - Louis

“Any man who gives up his gun to some punk is a coward. Any man who does can kiss his badge goodbye, if I can help it. You're policemen. Put your trust in God.”
Ned Wilson - LAPD Captain

“- Bruno Sauer: I can't help it. I don't dare to risk anything. My home, my family, you. I'm very much in love with you, Hedy.
- Mrs. Sauer: You've chosen the wrong way to keep me. I'd risk all this, all of it. It's no use to me now, because I've lost my respect for you. It's a shame. It shouldn't have happened.”

George Macready - Bruno Sauer
Katherine Locke - Mrs. Sauer

“- Col. Hart: What did you get the medal for?
- Capt. John Boyd: Cowardice.”
Jeffrey Jones - Col. Hart
Guy Pearce - Capt. John Boyd

“Shut up, Big-booty, you coward. You are the weakest individual I ever know.”
John Lithgow - Lord John Whorfin

“You must have a lot of courage, Visconte, to come here after you sent that lunatic harp teacher to kill me.”

Annette Bening - Merteuil