Cowardice quotes

“You're not brave. Men are brave.”

Ben Affleck - Batman

“You have no balls! And your fathers had no balls. You were all a product of generations of ball-less men who were either too weak or too frightened to stand up and take what's theirs. And one day you will pass on your empty shriveled sacks to your own pitiful offspring!”
Kevin Spacey - Dave Harken

“Sir, I don't want to disappoint you, sir, but you've got yourself in with couple of cowards here. We like things safe and easy, understand?”
Charles Martin Smith - Terry the Toad

“- Nigel: Dr. Bravestone. Famed archaeologist and international explorer. Known across the seven continents for your courageous exploits.
- Dr. Smolder Bravestone: Is there a seat belt?”

Rhys Darby - Nigel
The Rock - Spencer

“We run from the cops, we run from Radames, we run from security guards, we run from old man Quiles in a fucking bullshit’s store when he comes at us with a bullshit gun. All we do is fuckin’ run, feel like I'm on a goddamn track team.”
2Pac - Bishop

“- Tom Ward: [sniffs a flask and retches] That is disgusting. What does that kill?
- Master Gregory: [drinks from the flask] Cowardice.”
Ben Barnes - Tom Ward
Jeff Bridges - Master Gregory

“- Adrian Cronauer: How would you describe your testicles?
- Richard Nixon: That they're soft and they're very shallow and they serve no purpose.
- Adrian Cronauer: So what are you saying, sir?
- Richard Nixon: They lack the physical strength.”

Robin Williams - Adrian Cronauer
Richard Milhous Nixon - Richard Nixon

“Ain't nothing like a little fear to make a paper man crumble.”
Stuart Hughes - Officer Bowers

“If I could reach as high as my father's shoestrings, my whole life would be justified - and I would stand here before you proudly instead of as the thief and the coward that I am.”

Eddie Bracken - Woodrow Truesmith

“I know you're scared; we're all scared, but that doesn't mean we are cowards. We can take these skeletons, we can take them, with science.”

Bruce Campbell - Ashley "Ash" J. Williams (Evil Dead series)

“- Charles Serking: Did you enjoy it, Vera?
- Vera: Yeah, like being raped! When I got off the bus, I thought you'd lose your nerve. Most men are cowards in the broad daylight.”
Ben Gazzara - Charles Serking
Susan Tyrrell - Vera

“- Mike Waters: You're calling me a coward? You fat duck!
- Bob Pigeon: I'd give a thousand dollars to be able to run as fast as you can.
- Mike Waters: It'll never happen Bob.”
River Phoenix - Mike Waters
William Richert - Bob Pigeon

“Why worry? Be a coward and be happy.”
Henry Oscar - Dr. Harraz

“- The Girl: What do you plan to do if you see them?
- Dean Corso: I'll probably hide behind you.”
Emmanuelle Seigner - The Girl
Johnny Depp - Dean Corso

“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

“- Tiger Lily: You're going to run like a coward?
- Hook: Well, I never really thought of it in those exact terms, but, generally speaking, yes.”
Rooney Mara - Tiger Lily
Garrett Hedlund - Hook

“- Willa Weston: Why do you work for us, Rollo?
- Rollo Lee: Cowardice?”
Jamie Lee Curtis - Willa Weston
John Marwood Cleese - Rollo Lee

“You want to feel sorry for yourself, don’t you? With so much at stake, all you can think of is your own feelings. One woman has hurt you, and you take your revenge on the rest of the world. You’re a coward and a weakling.”

Ingrid Bergman - Ilsa Lund

“We all know what gutless cowards humans are, don't you?”
Andrew Divoff - Redeye

“- Bilbo Baggins: I hope only to be taken prisoner as quickly as possible!
- Thorin Oakenshield: Those are the words of a coward!
- Bilbo Baggins: The coward who flushed out Smaug? The coward who saved you time and time again? The coward who always went forward while you cringed behind?”
Orson Bean - Bilbo
Hans Conried - Thorin Oakenshield

- Paul: He tells you: "Go out and die!". Oh, but if you'll pardon me, it's easier to say go out and die than it is to do it!
- Student: Coward!
- Paul: And it's easier to say it, than to watch it happen!

Lew Ayres - Paul
Arthur Gardner - Student

“I'd kick you in the balls if you had any.”
Ione Skye - Trudi

“I heard the only way a man can get shot in the back is running away.”
Walter Huston - Trampas

“- Ethne Eustace: What is it, Harry?
- Harry Feversham: Feathers of cowardice. Yesterday we were informed that our regement would be shipping out to Sudan. That we would be sent to war.
- Ethne Eustace: You don't know where they were sending you, you said it yourself. You did it for me. No one in their right mind could call you a coward....” (continue) (continue reading)

Kate Hudson - Ethne Eustace
Heath Ledger - Harry Feversham

“A man abandoned his family and wrote his son a story. He wouldn't be the first to cloak his cowardice in a flag of sacrifice.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Sherlock Holmes