51 Movie Quotes about Cowards (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jan 11, 2026

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 I invented running away.

Steve Martin as Captain Smek in Home (2015)

2 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)

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

Quote from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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

Quote from Hondo (1953)

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

Rick Moranis as Dark Helmet in Spaceballs

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

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

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

Quote from Batman (1966)

8 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)

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

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

10 Come on out, you coward, and fight like a man!

Clarence Nash as Donald Duck in Mickey Mouse