A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
— Marvin Kitman
Coward: A man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally.
— Sultana Zoraya
I am a coward I know when to RUN!
— Dies Horribly, Goblins
"My old pappy used to say, 'He who fights and runs away lives to...run away another day."
Shaggy and Scooby are interesting characters, two of the most major characters in American literature. I think it's fantastic, because they are cowardly characters. They believe in cowardice and sandwiches. Can you think of any in the realm of English-speaking literature, cowardly characters that you identify with? You're with them all the way - "Go, Shaggy! Go, Scooby!" The rest of the guys who drive the van? "Fuck off." Scrappy-Doo - a Magnum. Boom! "Thank you, Grandad."
— Eddie Izzard, Dress to Kill
Gals, I am not built for this. And I didn't bring my inhaler.
— Lenny/Larry Nepp, Grojband, "Rock the House"
"Oh, this is me being brave! But I want to be brave at home, locked in my closet, with my teddy bear!"
—Fluttershy, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
'Besides...where Rincewind went’ – he lowered his voice – ‘trouble followed behind.’
Ridcully noticed that the wizards drew a little closer together.
‘Sounds all right to me,’ he said. ‘Best place for trouble, behind. You certainly don’t want it in front.'
Ridcully noticed that the wizards drew a little closer together.
‘Sounds all right to me,’ he said. ‘Best place for trouble, behind. You certainly don’t want it in front.'
“What shall we do?” said Twoflower.
“Panic?” said Rincewind hopefully. He always held that panic was the best means of survival; back in the olden days, his theory went, people faced with hungry saber-toothed tigers could be divided very simply into those who panicked and those who stood there saying “What a magnificent brute!” and “Here, pussy.”
"I'm not going out again. I don't care if everyone thinks I'm a stubborn mutt."
—King, EarthBound (1994)
"[Cable] threatened to torture me, but the only thing I told him was everything he wanted to know."
— Weasel, Deadpool 2
"At last some orders I can follow: Run away and live."
— Grif, Red vs. Blue
Luigi: Are you insane?! [Spike]'s three times your size!
Mario: Luigi, come on. You can't be scared all the time.
Luigi: You'd be surprised.
