The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed; And extreme fear can neither fight nor fly, But coward-like with trembling terror die


William Shakespeare
















I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man


Ernesto 'Che' Guevara













He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any man could have


Ernest Hemingway





















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


Voltaire

















Thou art a cat, and rat, and a coward to boot


Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra



















As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger


Akhenaton













Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated


George Bernard Shaw



















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


Mark Twain