Coward
Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs; -- said of a lion.
Destitute of courage; timid; cowardly.
Belonging to a coward; proceeding from, or expressive of, base fear or timidity.
A person who lacks courage; a timid or pusillanimous person; a poltroon.
To make timorous; to frighten.
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Coward Quotations
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Thomas Jefferson
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Voltaire
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
George S. Patton
The coward only threatens when he is safe.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Albert Camus
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan Poe
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
Andrew Jackson
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
George Bernard Shaw
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
Ambrose Bierce
Coward Translations
coward in German is Feigling, Feigling {m}, Angsthase {m}
coward in Norwegian is feiging
coward in Spanish is cobarde
coward in Swedish is feg, pultron, feg, kujon, stackare
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