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Coward: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made, And crowns for convoy put into his purse: We would not die in that man's company, That fears his fellowship to die with us.— H. V. iv. 3.

Perish the man whose mind is backward now. H.V. iv.— H. V. iv. 3

He's a great quarreller; and, but that he hath the gift of a coward, to allay the gust he hath in quarrelling, 'tis thought among the prudent, he would quickly have the gift of a grave.— T. N. i. 3.

In a retreat he outruns any lacquey; marry, in coming on, he has the cramp.— A. W. iv. 3.

You are the hare of whom the proverb goes, Whose valour plucks dead lions by the beard. K.J. ii. 1. Plenty and peace, breed cowards: hardness ever Of hardiness is mother.— Cym. iii. 6

I have fled myself; and have instructed cowards To run, and show their shoulders.— A. C. iii. 9.

Foul-spoken coward! that thunderest with thy tongue, And with thy weapon nothing dar'st perform. Tit. And. ii. 1. He excels his brother for a coward, yet his brother is reputed one of the best that is.— A. W. iv. 3.

Turn head and stop pursuit; for coward dogs Most spend their mouths, when what they seem to threaten Runs far before them.— H. V. ii. 4

So cowards fight when they can fly no further: As doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons; So desperate thieves, all hopeless of their lives, Breathe out invectives 'gainst the officers.— H. VI. PT. III. i. 4

Cowards die many times before their deaths: The valiant never taste of death but once.— J.C. ii. 2.

Foxcomb

Believe me, an osolute gentleman, full of most excellent differences, of very soft society, and great showing: indeed, to speak feelingly of him, he is the card or calendar of gentry, for you shall find in him the continent of what part a gentleman would see.— H. v. 2.

A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain: One, whom the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish like enchanting harmony; A man of compliments, whom right and wrong Have chose as umpire of their mutiny.