I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.

- Carl Reiner

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

- Gene Hackman

Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.

- Glenn Beck

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

- George W. Bush

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

- George Bernard Shaw

If I'm scared and I'm a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?

- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.

- Emmanuel Jal

I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.

- Edith Piaf

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

- Edgar Allan Poe

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

- Dolores Ibarruri

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

- Albert Camus

I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.

- Cai Guo-Qiang

Mr. Snowden is a coward who has chosen to run.

- Chuck Schumer

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

- Chief Joseph

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

- Che Guevara

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

- Bertrand Russell

If any man has left us for fear of Nero, I shall not account him a coward; but I shall hail as a philosopher any man who has been superior to this fear, and I shall teach him all I know.

- Apollonius of Tyana

I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

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

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

- Ambrose Bierce