英语名人名言：Cowardice 怯懦

　　He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.

　　Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), The Rebel (1951)

　　I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

　　E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970), as a small child

　　A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

　　Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B.C.

　　None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

　　Ferdinand Foch (1851 - 1929)

　　Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice1.

　　George Jackson (1941 - 1971)

　　A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous2 person afterward3.

　　Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)

　　There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

　　Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)

　　A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.

　　Native American Proverb

　　Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

　　Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)

　　The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

　　Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)

　　Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency4 asks: Is it politic5? But Conscience asks: Is it right?

　　William Punshon

　　A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom and ever three parts coward.

　　William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 4

　　Conscience does make cowards of us all, and thus the native hue6 of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.

　　William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act III, sc. 1

　　Cowards die many times before their deaths;

　　The valiant7 never taste of death but once.

　　William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Julius Caesar", Act II Scene 2

　　Cowards die many times before their deaths;

　　The valiant never taste of death but once.

　　Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,

　　It seems to me most strange that men should fear;

　　Seeing that death, a necessary end,

　　Will come when it will come.

　　William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2

　　Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

　　William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar, Act II, sc. 2

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