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Cowards: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

His mind is not heroic, and there's the humour of it.— M. W. i. 3.

A coward, a most devout coward; religious in it.— T. N. iii. 4

I know him a notorious liar; Think him a great way fool, solely a coward: Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him, That they take place, when virtue's steely bones Look bleak in the cold wind.— A. W. i. 1

You souls of geese, That bear the shapes of men, how have you run From slaves that apes would beat! Pluto and hell! All hurt behind; backs red, and faces pale With flight and agued fear! Mend, and charge home, Or, by the fires of heaven, I'll leave the foe, And make my wars on you: Look to't.— C. i. 4.

So bees with smoke, and doves with noisome stench, Are from their hives, and houses, driven away. They call'd us, for our fierceness, English dogs; Now, like to whelps, we crying run away.— H. VI. PT. I. 1. 5.

The enemy full-hearted, Lolling the tongue with slaughtering, having work More plentiful than tools to do't, struck down Some mortally, some slightly touch'd, some falling Merely through fear; that the straight pass was damn'd With dead men, hurt behind, and cowards living To die with lengthened shame.— Cyt. v. 3.

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe, And so your follies fight against yourself. Fear and be slain; no worse can come, to fight: And fight and die, is death destroying death; Where, fearing dying, pays death servile breath.— R. II. iii. 2