quotations about enemies
Men and women are natural enemies, like cat and dog--only more so. They are forced to live together for a time, or this wonderful race couldn't go on.
NEITH BOYCE
Enemies
For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.
UMBERTO ECO
The Prague Cemetery
Fear not, too much, an open enemy;
He is consistent--always at his post;
But watchful be of him who holds the key
Of your own heart, and flatters you the most.
ANDREW DOWNING
"Your Enemy"
It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.
CHARLES DE LINT
The Little Country
It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.
FORREST CARTER
The Outlaw Josie Wales
If thou wilt think evil of thy neighbour, soon shalt thou have him for thy foe.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
Proverbial Philosophy
The best way to defeat an enemy is not to eliminate the enemy physically but rather the enemy's psychological submission.
XUEZHI GUO
The Ideal Chinese Political Leader
I have only one real and true enemy on earth, and that is myself.
CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN
An Evolution in Aphorisms
By a few soft words and pleasant looks enemies have been made friends, and old attachments renewed that had been annulled for years.
NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY
Helps to Happiness
For its part, the coyote almost certainly didn't consider the goose to be an enemy, although the goose would likely disagree. To the coyote, the goose was dinner, neither more nor less.
DAVID P. BARASH
Beloved Enemies
To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.
SIDNEY SHELDON
The Other Side of Midnight
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
Driftwood
In most cases, our enemies are less focused on us than we might assume, or fear, or secretly desire.
DAVID P. BARASH
Beloved Enemies
If you are without an enemy in the world, you may be a lamb or an ass, but you are not a man.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Boyfriends
And girlfriends
And enemies
Those upon which we rely
LOW
"Boyfriends and Girlfriends"
I like to have powerful enemies. Makes me feel important.
LEIGH BARDUGO
Siege and Storm
An enemy to define ourselves
An enemy to refine our hate
DARK TRANQUILITY
"The Enemy", Damage Done
We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
"Of the Affections", Les Caractères
The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
Micah
A dead man is the worst enemy alive ... You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.
JOHN LE CARRÉ
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