Definition of cowardice

"cowardice" in the noun sense

1. cowardice, cowardliness

the trait of lacking courage

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Quotations for cowardice

Cowards have no luck. [ Elizabeth Kulman ]

Falsehood is cowardice. [ Hosea Ballou ]

The weak resort of cowardice. [ Colton ]

Despair swallows up cowardice. [ Hazlitt ]

He who fights and runs away
May live to fight another day.
But he who is in battle slain,
Can never rise to fight again. [ Goldsmith ]

A plague of all cowards, I say. [ William Shakespeare ]

Go - let thy less than woman's hand
Assume the distaff - not the brand. [ Byron ]

Lying's a certain mark of cowardice. [ Southern ]

The coward never on himself relies,
But to an equal for assistance flies. [ Crabbe ]

To wish for death is a coward's part. [ Ovid ]

The coward wretch whose hand and heart
Can bear to torture aught below.
Is ever first to quail and start
From slightest pain or equal foe. [ Eliza Cook ]

All men would be cowards if they durst. [ Earl of Rochester ]

Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen. [ Proverb ]

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen. [ Epictetus ]

A coward's fear can make a coward valiant. [ Owen Feltham ]

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency. [ Swift ]

Cowards fear to die; but courage stout,
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

Bravery escapes more dangers than cowardice. [ Segur ]

A coward is the kindest animal;
'Tis the most forgiving creature in a fight. [ Dryden ]

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice. [ Edward Everett ]

When all the blandishments of life are gone,
The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on. [ Dr. Sewell ]

What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards! [ Duke of Wellington ]

A coward; a most devout coward; religious in it. [ William Shakespeare ]

How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,
Who, inward search'd, have livers white as milk. [ William Shakespeare ]

Cowards die many times before their deaths:
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come. [ William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar ]

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. [ Quintus Curtius Rufus ]

Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring. [ Lucan ]

It is only in little matters that men are cowards. [ W. H. Herbert ]

I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety. [ William Shakespeare ]

Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition. [ Franklin ]

Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth - the cowards! [ Joaquin Miller ]

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage. [ Confucius ]

The craven's fear is but selfishness, like his merriment. [ Whittier ]

It is the misfortune of worthy people that they are cowards. [ Voltaire ]

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage. [ Wellington ]

True valour lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness. [ Cervantes ]

Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. [ Gay ]

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

That same man that rennith awaie, Male again fight, an other dale. [ Erasmus ]

Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother. [ William Shakespeare ]

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare. [ Queen Elizabeth ]

Commonly they use their feet for defence, whose tongue is their weapon. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

But look for ruin when a coward wins; For fear and cruelty are ever twins. [ Aleyn ]

The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness. [ Cervantes ]

The native hue of resolution is sicklied over with the pale cast of thought. [ William Shakespeare ]

Fear is my vassal, when I frown he flies; A hundred times in life a coward dies. [ Marston ]

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. [ Dr. .Johnson ]

Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage. [ Lavater ]

Dangers are light, if they seem light; and more dangers have deceived men than forced them. [ Bacon ]

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves. [ Dr. Johnson ]

It is vain for the coward to fly; death follows close behind; it is by defying it that the brave escape. [ Voltaire ]

Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor. [ Hazlitt ]

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward that is insolent whenever he dares be so. [ Junius ]

My valor is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palms of my hands. [ Sheridan ]

All mankind is one of these two cowards - either to wish to die when he should live, or live when he should die. [ Sir Robert Howard ]

For cowards the road of desertion should be left open. They will carry over to the enemy nothing but their fears. [ Bovee ]

The man that lays his hand on woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward. [ Tobin ]

Dost thou now fall over to my foes? Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame, And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs. [ William Shakespeare ]

Some are brave men one day and cowards another, as great captains have often told me, from their own experience and observation. [ Sir W. Temple ]

To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice. [ David Dudley Field ]

He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave. [ Heine ]

Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie. [ George Herbert ]

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes. [ Herodotus ]

If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor. [ Jane Porter ]

The fact is, that to do anything in tbia world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. [ Sydney Smith ]

The courage that grows from constitution very often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; and when it is only a kind of instinct in the soul, it breaks out on all occasions, without judgment or discretion. [ Addison ]

When the passengers gallop by as if fear made them speedy, the cur follows them with an open mouth; let them walk by in confident neglect, and the dog will not stir at all; it is a weakness that every creature takes advantage of. [ J. Beaumont ]

To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil. [ Aristotle ]

What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice. [ Ruskin ]

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Scrabble® Letter Score: 17

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WEIRDO
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CAWED
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COWARDICE
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CODEC
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CROWD
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COWARD
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WEIRD
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ACCORD
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CIRCA
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CIRCA
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Words containing the sequence cowardice

Words that start with cowardice (1 word)

Words with cowardice in them (1 word)

Words that end with cowardice (1 word)

Word Growth involving cowardice

Shorter words in cowardice

ow cow coward

ar war ward coward

ice dice

Longer words containing cowardice

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