Only cowards insult dying majesty.

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

You are like the eels of Melun; you cry out before you are skinned. [Fr., Vous semblez les anguilles de Melun; vous criez devant qu'on vous esorche.]

The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start from the slightest pain or equal foe.

When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.