Poltroons Quotes & Sayings

And when he catches me looking at him, he gives me this incredibly sweet, calm smile, and I think that we've got our lives ahead of us, our whole lives. — Delphine De Vigan

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living. — Tom O'Connor

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer. — James Fallows

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this. — Benjamin Disraeli

Poltroons, cowards, skulkers and dastards. — Eustache Deschamps

Something has been said for sobriety but very little. — John Berryman

At Equator Ranch a decade before, his debut lambing had turned out only six surviving animals of four thousand ewes. Undaunted, he had burned through more of his inheritance (eighty thousand pounds, some claimed), replaced his stock, learned his hard lessons, and was now the most successful large-scale rancher in all of Kenya. Not — Paula McLain

There is such a shelter in each other. — Nick Laird

Mr. Suttree it is our understanding that at curfew rightly decreed by law and in that hour wherein night draws to its proper close and the new day commences and contrary to conduct befitting a person of your station you betook yourself to various low places within the shire of McAnally and there did squander several ensuing years in the company of thieves, derelicts, miscreants, pariahs, poltroons, spalpeens, curmudgeons, clotpolls, murderers, gamblers, bawds, whores, trulls, brigands, topers, tosspots, sots and archsots, lobcocks, smellsmocks, runagates, rakes, and other assorted and felonious debauchees.
I was drunk, cried Suttree. — Cormac McCarthy

Esteem has more engaging charms than friendship, or even love. It captivates hearts better, and never makes ings. — Stanislaw Leszczynski

he beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire. He asserted in his conscience, that all this had been good. What — Victor Hugo

So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is. — Della Reese

It required 85 parts by weight of oxygen and 15 parts of hydrogen to compose 100 parts of water. — Antoine Lavoisier

I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A. — Edward Ruscha

Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons. — H.L. Mencken