Enemies Quotes

“Sarah shook her head. Babysitting was a tough job. And having kids? Playing Lady Macbeth was a whole lot easier.”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

“It’s been a decade or more since I set eyes on Daryll, and it’s immediately clear that the intervening years have been less than kind to him. He’s prematurely stooped, with a ruddy complexion and a nest of black hair that’s going thin at the crown. His once-proud nose has been broken at least once, its bulbous tip stained with a frantic network of purple veins that run through his skin like rivers. But then he’s three inches taller than me, and at least six inches bulkier all round, so in some ways he’s actually rather impressive, a sort of angry bulldozer on legs.”
― Andy Marr, A Matter of Life and Death

“Harboring mockery, hate, and revenge is to burden too much your enemies' conditioning of your soul.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy.”
― Robert B. Reich

“I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it”
― Voltaire

“My best and hardest Enemies until Death are my Mirror-Reflection and Gravity.”
― Sino Melo

“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy”
― Isaac Newton

“Their one heart is broken, the other heart mended
Enemies are in - forever befriended.
Chronicles of nothingness with lies after lies
A cliché to recall that time surely flies.”
― Munia Khan

“Trusting God to fight for us brings peace in the midst of turmoil, protection from harm, and victory over challenges.”
― Shaila Touchton

“When faced with enemies, we can trust God to protect and defend us, for He is our strong defender and warrior.”
― Shaila Touchton

“And in the expression on the constable’s face, I saw the future. This struggle we were engaged in — this battle to keep India British — was one we were destined to lose. If even our own men treated the enemy as saints, then what chance did we stand?”
― Abir Mukherjee, Smoke and Ashes

“We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
― Ezekiel Millinga, Peace and Love Doesn't Last Long

“The better you are, the more enemies you will have. Satan is one of them.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Remind me again why you're an Ivy?"
"They adopted me. Everyone needs friends."
"But with friends like these, who needs enemies?”
― Alexa Donne, The Ivies

“Your hatred is my pride, and your envy my appreciation. If you hunt me, I thank you for making me the center of your life.”
― Aaron K. Archer, The Malignancy Protocol: A Near-Future Techno-Thriller

“If you call me to gossip, it better be about you or me. You and I are the only two people we are going to talk about while on the phone with one another. We have enough to share about ourselves, (failures, more failures and successes) to stay out of other people business.”
― Niedria Kenny

“That's how it is with us. Even our worst enemies in time become precious.”
― William Saroyan, Places Where I've Done Time

“Then you and I will have something in common, won’t we? Besides, I like to have powerful enemies. Makes me feel important.”
Mal crossed his arms and considered the privateer. “I can’t decide if you’re crazy or stupid.”
“I have so many good qualities,” Sturmhond said. “It can be hard to choose.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“You know we’re not the enemy. We’re part of this city, like you, trying to survive in a world that isn’t fair. We shouldn’t be fighting each other! We should be united, fighting the people who’ve really taken what belongs to us all.”
― S.F. Said, Tyger

“Friendship is a two way street and neither of us are walking”
― Julian Nolan

“If two evils are fighting each other, would you want one of them to win? No, you would want both of them to be defeated!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There's a Chinese idiom that catches the gist," said Robin. "Tùsĭhúbēi. The rabbit dies, and the fox grieves, for they're animals of a kind."

"Preciously," said Anthony. "Only we've got to convince them we're not their prey. That there's a hunter in the forest, and we're all in danger.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“It's one thing to forgive a man for his deeds against you, but it's quite another to let him go free when committing vile acts against humanity. That's why we have laws. Without them, our enemies would run wild, and there would soon be little order in the land. Does not the Bible also say, Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man? He looked at his friends and shook his head in disagreement. No, you start playing nice with criminals, and one day you will pay for it. One day it will come back to haunt you.”
― Royal Wade Kimes, Come To It

“Familiarity blinds us to dangers, it makes us see enemies as friends”
― Okechukwu Augustus

“Then it came to me that we were all fighting against one enemy: Fascism. It was in every word and gesture, every thought.”
― Carlos Bulosan, America Is in the Heart: A Personal History

“It's an awful lot to take in, this elaborate plan in which I was a piece, just as I was meant to be a piece in the Hunger Games. Used without consent, without knowledge. At least in the Hunger Games, I knew I was being played with.

My supposed friends have been a lot more secretive.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“I am unsure at this time who my enemies are. But one thing I am sure of is that I know who my friends are.”
― A.W. Clark, The Epic of Timothy Gray

“Oversharing arms your enemies. If you never gave them the details, they’d have nothing to ignite against you.”
― Charmaine J Forde

“Here I redeem the pledge thou gavest;
I pour sweet water upon thee.
Life shall prevail in this windless place:
My love, thou shalt live in a palace,
Thy enemies shall fall into emptiness.
We travel this path together
Which love has traced for thee.
Surely well do I show the way
For my love is thy palace. . .”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“So, you've been let into the circle, or at least one of the circles?" She looked sideways at me and knocked back the last of the cognac.”
― Antony Ardan, About to Find Out