Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.

Cowardice is no virtue.

...Really, there is no greater sin than cowardice; cowards are never saved - that is sure. I can stand everything else but not that.

Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.

A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.

Knowledge is the power, the cowards get devoured.

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

I'd never allow myself to let myself call myself a coward.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.

Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

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.

I'm a hero wid coward's legs, I'm a hero from the waist up.

You cannot be brave if you do not have a coward inside you.

none can be Tyrants but Cowards.

Nearly every man is a coward, if confronted by the proper terror.

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.

Well I have a drug history and a public drinking problem and I am not the healthiest guy. So they just ran that I died of a drug overdose.

Most people are weak and frightened, and run from anything which could be upsetting. Most people, also, are takers and not givers.

You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.