ENEMIES QUOTES V

quotations about enemies

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The enemy is never more unnerving than when he's invisible.

K. J. PARKER

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He who has his enemy's love and trust is in a far better position to attack, later, when the time is right.

K. J. PARKER

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Yet in one way enemies give us hope of good traits in ourselves; for since there will be enmity, those will incur it most who have strong points of character, which as much bring them against some men as close to others. So that we say in general, No enemies, no friends.

JAMES VILA BLAKE

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The only good enemy is a dead enemy.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

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Friends may come and go
but enemies accumulate.

JAYNE ANN KRENTZ

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How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for himself, as his mark of distinction; he can endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to honor! In contrast to this, picture "the enemy" as the man of ressentiment conceives him--and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived "the evil enemy," "the Evil One," and this in fact is his basic concept, from which he then evolves, as an afterthought and pendant, a "good one"--himself!

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

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If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

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When the inhabitants of a free city have overcome the enemy in the field, it is not easy to express the pleasure which they feel in putting their opponents to flight, as well as in pursuing and making havoc of them.

XENOPHON

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In cases of defence 'tis best to weigh
The enemy more mighty than he seems;
So the proportions of defence are fill'd;
Which of a weak and niggardly projection
Doth, like a miser, spoil his coat with scanting
A little cloth.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

G. K. CHESTERTON

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There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betray your trust.

DANIEL ABRAHAM

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We have two lessons to teach an enemy who despises us--to value himself less highly, and us more worthily.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

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An enemy will train us in watchfulness; for if he be wary to seize on every error and trip us, we shall be more heedful to expose nothing, and this will drive us to prudence and thoughtfulness.

JAMES VILA BLAKE

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Enemies make us watchful of ourselves and induce self-examination; for we must argue thus: our foe hates us with reason or without reason; if without reason, then he not really hates us, but some other sort of person for whom he mistakes us; but if with reason, then it is plain we should improve, and remove the reason.

JAMES VILA BLAKE

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Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

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It is noteworthy that in Japanese pop culture, enemies are not always villains. It is acknowledged that an enemy is simply the person fighting for the other side of the conflict and that if the story were told from his point of view, he would be the hero of the tale.

ROBIN E. BRENNER

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Love your enemies but keep your gun oiled.

KEN ALSTAD

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Mortal enemies are like beautiful kitchens: Some households have them, and when they belong to famous people, we're immediately more interested in them. Which makes public feuds between mortal enemies akin to fancy custom appliances and gleaming copper pots as far as the eye can see.

ALEX ABAD-SANTOS

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Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

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