Graham Chapman Quotes

Some allow themselves to be overcome by panic, and others charge because they dare not remain at their posts. Some may be found whose courage is strengthened by small perils that prepare them to face greater dangers. Some are daring when facing swords but dread facing bullets; others dread bullets little but fear facing swords a lot.

The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.

Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

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

Don't Stop ...down, ...Down there ...down where ...monsters, ...Run!

Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.

It sometimes requires courage to fly from danger.

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.

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

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

We were driven off like rats in five minutes.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

… there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

I'm certainly never running away from the Seekers again.

Fear can give you urgent wings.

I don’t wanna die, man. They’re not playing. Have you seen how many of them are out there? One just took a shot at me, so unlike you morons, I’m hiding. Hiding is nice. (Vik)

The only thing that can combat fear is action. And there's two actions. There's fight and flight.

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.