50 Movie Quotes about Cowards (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: May 7, 2025

Memorable quotes about cowards, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Like quitting. That's what I'm doing. Sure it's the coward's way out. But this coward's gonna survive.

Bill Hader as Fear in Inside Out

2 I invented running away.

Steve Martin as Captain Smek in Home (2015)

3 But for the moment, there is sufficient cowardice, sloth and mendacity down there on Earth to last forever.

Laurence Olivier as Zeus in Clash of the Titans (1981)

4 Get off that horse. Get off that horse, you filthy coward!

Clint Eastwood as The Man With No Name in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

5 The cougar screams insults and is brave. A coyote howls insults and is a coward. We shall see. Cougar or coyote.

John Wayne as Hondo Lane in Hondo (1953)

6 What's the matter, Colonel Sandurz? Chicken?

Rick Moranis as Dark Helmet in Spaceballs

7 You speak to me of code? What code? The coward's code!

Sessue Hayakawa as Colonel Saito in The Bridge on the River Kwai

8 Oh, you cowardly kitten! Do you want to live forever?

Adam West as Bruce Wayne - Batman in Batman (1966)

9 You're right, I am a coward! I haven't any courage at all. I even scare myself!

Bert Lahr as The Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz (1939)

10 You're nothing but a great, big coward!

Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939)

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