Quotes about war

"War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace-time."

Hay, Ian on war   

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"A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs."

Bierce, Ambrose on war   

"For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on war   

"Faint heart never won fair lady."

Cervantes, Miguel De on war
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"How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination."

Collier, Jeremy on war   

"To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice."

Confucius on war
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"Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare."

Elizabeth, Queen's Mother on war   

"Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen."

Epictetus on war   

"Fear has its use but cowardice has none."

Gandhi, Mahatma on war
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"Cowards can never be moral."

Gandhi, Mahatma on war
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"Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save."

Gay, John on war   

"The coward threatens when he is safe."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on war
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"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."

Hemingway, Ernest on war   

"When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion."

Hoffer, Eric on war   

"It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward."

Ibarruri, Dolores on war   

"A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit."

Jefferson, Thomas on war   

"I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark."

Johnson, Samuel on war   

"It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so."

Junius on war   

"A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage."

Kitman, Marvin on war   

"Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive."

Knight, George A. on war
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"I'm a hero with coward's legs."

Milligan, Spike on war   

"That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward."

Poe, Edgar Allan on war
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"It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life."

Proverb, Irish on war   

"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist."

Rand, Ayn on war   

"All men would be cowards if they could."

Rochester, Earl on war   

"The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on war   

"A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites."

Rufus, Quintus Curtius on war   

"When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on."

Sewell, George on war   

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once."

Shakespeare, William on war
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"Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once."

Shakespeare, William on war
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"Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice."

Shaw, George Bernard on war   

"My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!"

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley on war   

"A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward."

Stanhope, Philip Dormer on war   

"It is better to be killed than frightened to death."

Surtees, Robert S. on war   

"The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner."

Twain, Mark on war   

"There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice."

Twain, Mark on war
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"A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on."

Unknown, Source on war
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"The cowards never started -- and the weak died along the way."

Unknown, Source on war   

"One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly."

Voltaire on war   

"Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men."

Westcott, Bishop on war