When Mabelle Webb died, Clifton began the mourning that lasted until his own death. Noel Coward noted in a letter, . . . "Poor Cli...fton . . . is still, after two months, wailing and sobbing over Mabelle's death. As she was well over ninety, gaga, and driving him mad for years, this seems excessive and over indulgent. . . ." The most famous remark to go the rounds of Clifton Webb's friends was Noel Coward's final, acerbic one to him: "It must be tough to be orphaned at seventy-one!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O Jesse had a wife, a mourner all her life And the children they were brave,... But the dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard He laid Jesse James in his grave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She's just a child, but I'm the one who's fainthearted.... She's the woman, but I'm the coward. She bears that high, swollen set of breasts, but I'm the one who's burdened. The heavy hips are hers, but I'm unable to move. It's a wonder how clumsy I've become because of flaws that shelter themselves in another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by ...an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made a liar, made mean a...nd slavish, accustomed to fawn and prevaricate, and "manage" by base arts a husband or a father,--I think this is worse than to be kicked with hobnailed shoes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That...'s my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer--that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an hones...t man, but is a sort of whiffling, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »