ENEMIES QUOTES V

quotations about enemies

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The dread of an enemy is more killing then an enemy.

JOSEPH CARYL

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The only point in having enemies is so you can defeat them, kill them, brush them aside ... or give them a chance to redeem themselves.

DEREK LANDY

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

JAMES REDFIELD

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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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Love your enemies but keep your gun oiled.

KEN ALSTAD

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Every man is his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE

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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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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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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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Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

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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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We must give even an enemy what credit he deserves. If thus we do, then whether we blame or excuse, it will be clear that we are looking at the wrong, not blinded by hatred of the person. This will gain credit for what we say. To this kind of high and self-contained justice, enemies may help us more directly than friends, perhaps, because it is so easy to commend the friend for love's sake, but a harder and higher virtue to excuse the enemy for justice's sake.

JAMES VILA BLAKE

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The only good enemy is a dead enemy.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

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Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

ORSON SCOTT CARD

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Grenades and bombs are exploding.
Friends are fighting furiously against foes.
One enemy pounding on another's nest,
emptying mother earth of its content.

SAMMY OKE AKOMBI

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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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Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.

ANONYMOUS

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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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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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Your enemy brought out your dormant primal instincts, he lit up the primitive circuits of your brain.

E. L. DOCTOROW

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