“- General Zod: Son of Jor-El. We were beginning to think you were a coward.
- Superman: I'm not a coward, Zod.
- Ursa: Let him prove it!
- General Zod: Possibly not. It is extremely likely you are merely a fool. Like father, like son.
- Superman: Somehow, I just can't hear you, Zod.
- General Zod: Then die, as you deserve to!”
Terence Stamp - General Zod
Christopher Reeve - Superman
Sarah Douglas - Ursa

“You're a coward. I mean it! You let life defeat you. You don't fight back.”

Alphonse Ethier - Cragg

- "Wild Bill" Donovan: I once thought this man was a coward.
- Sgt. "Big Mike" Wynn: A coward, sir? From now on everytime I hear the name of Plunkett, I'll snap to attention and salute.

George Brent - "Wild Bill" Donovan
Alan Hale - Sgt. "Big Mike" Wynn

“They say that when a ship is sinking all the rats leave. Goodbye, rats! But you're mistaken if you think I'm sinking!”

Tyrone Power - Juan

“You are a lot of cowards to go against him. He has done nothing against you and he never has and you know it well. How some of you, you smug-faced hypocrites, can sit in the same chapel with him I cannot tell.”

Sara Allgood - Mrs. Morgan