"Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning."
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"It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing."
"You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do"
"Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race."
"You're not a coward just because you don't want to hurt people."
"We are all born cowards."
"Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting."
"Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated."
"No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere."
"He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have."
"None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear."
"The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!"
"Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother."
"Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward."
"A coward judges all he sees by what he is."
"Man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards."
"Riches make cowards of us."
"It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave"
"The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic."
"Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards!"