John Dryden Quotes

Knowledge is the power, the cowards get devoured.

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!

I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.

Better it were not to live than to live a coward.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.

Cowards, I believe, are people who are afraid to embrace what they want or need in a natural, honest way.

Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

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.

The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

Fly not, cowards and vile beings, for a single knight attacks you.

A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women

If you are courageous, listen to the heart. If you are a coward, listen to the head.

What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!” Percy had no intention of doing that.

Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards!

You gain nothing by becoming cowards.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

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

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.