Enemies Quotes

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people if not the eagerness the passion for the same thing?

Bernard Berenson

Whoever has his foe at his mercy and does not kill him is his own enemy.

Sa'di

The little foxes that spoil the vines.

Bible

We have met the enemy and he is us.

Walt Kelly

The space in a needle's eye is sufficient for two friends but the whole world is scarcely big enough to hold two enemies. Solomon ibn Gabirol Whoso sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed.

Bible

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them - and then you destroy yourself.

Richard Nixon

There's nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.

Euripides

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Arabic proverb

The truth is forced upon us very quickly by a foe.

Aristophanes

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

G.K. Chesterton

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Baltasar Gracián

He hasn't an enemy in the world and none of his friends like him.

Oscar Wilde

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

Malayan proverb

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

Christopher Morley

Be careful who you choose for an enemy because that is who you become most like, Anna tosses Nietzsche's quote up into the air. She serves up words she has heard me say in the past.

Patricia Cornwell

But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.

Danielle Trussoni

John F. Kennedy says: ‘Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.’ I suggest that forgive your enemies and forget their names too! Don’t leave any stone in your head; keep only the flowers, only the names of the good men!

Mehmet Murat ildan

He looks around at his guests. All are prepared. A Latin grace; English would be his choice, but he will suit his company. Who cross themselves ostentatiously, in papist style. Who look at him, expectant. He shouts for the waiters. The doors burst open. Sweating men heave the platters to the table. It seems the meat is fresh, in fact not slaughtered yet. It is just a minor breach of etiquette. The company must sit and salivate. The Boleyns are laid at his hand to be carved.

Hilary Mantel

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive

Barbara Deming

In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbour hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility. The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behaviour must be determined not by the way others treat him, but by the treatment he himself receives from Jesus; it has only one source, and that is the will of Jesus.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench! Oh, god! Oh, god! Don't touch me—oh, god!

John Green

Choose your friends carefully but don’t worry about your enemies, they will choose you

Carl Henegan

You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it--which is what matters most.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.

Auberon Waugh

Why is it considered so glorious to kill an enemy, when it is not considered contemptible to create one?

Anne E.G. Nydam

Villains and plots and enemies are simple things to me. But friendships are complicated, and love is harder still. It has wounded me deeper than a sword ever could.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them.

Mary E. DeMuth

We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever. Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time and place we choose. Not them.

Richelle Mead

Serving your enemies is the fastest way to learn to love them.

Will Davis Jr.

He was king, if he didn’t have enemies he wasn’t doing it right.

S.E. Zbasnik

The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects.

Warder C. Allee

If you have too many enemies, it means that you are either too good or too evil!

Mehmet Murat ildan

There are no such enemies So dire as good people, They will rob you, mournfully, And condemn you, weeping, They'll invite you to their home, Welcome you profusely, Ask you all about yourself, To mock and abuse you, Later, mock at you and jeer, To grab you for sure... Without enemies on earth Somehow one can endure.But those good people yet will Everywhere beset you, Even in the other world They will not forget you.

Taras Shevchenko

Relationships with your enemies; you need to cultivate those, because: "Only true enemies stab you in the front.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I like to kill my enemies and listen to the lamentations of their women

Ben Fountain

Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those--in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed. Suffer them if you can’t escape them, but once you have steered clear of them, give them the shortest shrift possible. Above all, try to avoid telling stories about the unjust treatment you received at their hands; avoid it no matter how receptive your audience may be. Tales of this sort extend the existence of your antagonists....

Joseph Brodsky

In reality, there are no enemies; we're all souls in growth, waking up

James Redfield

Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing.

C.J. Cherryh

As a rule, however fine and deep a phrase may be, it only affects the indifferent, and cannot fully satisfy those who are happy or unhappy; that is why dumbness is most often the highest expression of happiness or unhappiness; lovers understand each other better when they are silent, and a fervent, passionate speech delivered by the grave only touches outsiders, while to the widow and children of the dead man it seems cold and trivial.

Anton Chekhov

In all nature there seemed to be a feeling of hopelessness and pain. The earth, like a ruined woman sitting alone in a dark room and trying not to think of the past, was brooding over memories of spring and summer and apathetically waiting for the inevitable winter. Wherever one looked, on all sides, nature seemed like a dark, infinitely deep, cold pit from which neither Kirilov nor Abogin nor the red half-moon could escape....

Anton Chekhov

Which is a greater sin in the eyes of God: to let a child suffer and die to preserve your reputation, or to become friends with your enemy?

Jeremy Courtney

Hate not your enemies; love thy rivals, for this is the only way to convert them into your friends and your partners!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The man she despised had his job back. Her job. Damn it to hell. She’d never be able to live with him now.

Abby Niles

The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

Aesop

You must expect to make enemies.""I never expect to make anything else," he said.

Susan Kay

Don't make the mistake of underestimating your enemies.

Bohdi Sanders

There are benefits in confrontation. Even though we don’t like it most of the time, but people who obey this demand of life, live in peace better than the others. They avoid conflict and fights, better than others. They are able to identify their friends and enemies faster than others.

Sunday Adelaja

It is important to give, not only to those closer to us, also to our enemies.

Sunday Adelaja

...dangers, to Francisco, were merely opportunities for another brilliant performance; there were no battles he could lose, no enemies to beat him.

Ayn Rand

Focus on no enemies, liberate armies of truth— give berth to your worldview.

Kamini Arichandran

...if I only knew how much longer we had to put up with each other's company, I'd start counting the days.

Anne Frank

The ideological premise, however, "can" not be defective; it is sacrosanct. ... Whatever does not seem right, whatever does not fit, must be explained by something wrong outside of the ideology; for its perfection is beyond all doubt. In (t)his way the ideology immunizes itself by offering more and more hair-splitting accusations. Betrayal and the dark powers of inner and outer enemies lie in wait everywhere. Theories about conspiracies develop and conveniently hide the absurdity of the premise, necessitating and justifying bloody purges.

Paul Watzlawick

Give a smile to your enemies and they will go mad wondering what you are plotting against them.

Amit Abraham

You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip. You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip. You’ve never turned the wrong to right. You’ve been a coward in the fight.

Charles Mackay

You want to take out an enemy? Ignore the things they write, the things they do, the things they say behind your back. Nothing will shut up rumors and innuendo more than to ignore them and diffuse them with silence.

Robert J. Braathe

I asked him about his enemies. He began to count them. The list went on and on...." - Conversations with Yahya Kemal

Orhan Pamuk

When you stop worrying about your shortcomings, you deny your enemies, rivals, and/or competitors lethal weapons they may use to attack and defeat you.

Assegid Habtewold

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