Enemies quotes

Discover insightful and thought-provoking quotes about enemies, the ones who challenge, teach, and help shape our journey of growth and resilience.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

- Arthur Bloch

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

- Lord Byron

I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

- David Hume

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

- Laurence Sterne

Enemies are so stimulating.

- Katharine Hepburn

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

- Baltasar Gracian

Our enemies and our would-be enemies are working very hard at cyberterrorism... They're trying to level the playing field because they know they can't beat us tank for tank, plane for plane.

- Curt Weldon

The last of our enemies is laid low.

- Clement Attlee

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

- William Hazlitt

Here, I am looking for a document issued by a public attorney. I don't find. He is accused by the political leaders of the coalition, by his enemies, who said that he is guilty. That he deserves to be killed.

- Jacques Verges

So yeah, but from the show and as far as MTV I have a lot of friends, and from the challenges and the other shows, that I've met. I currently don't have any enemies that I know of.

- Trishelle Cannatella

What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other.

- Mary Douglas

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

- Edward W. Howe

The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.

- Georges Jacques Danton

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

- Maria Callas

I am of opinion that it is highly requisite forthwith to pass a law, prohibiting upon great penalties all trade with our enemies, and more especially the supplying of them with arms, ammunition or provisions of any kind whatsoever.

- William Shirley

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

- Robert Burton

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

- Khalil Gibran

We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

- Zbigniew Brzezinski

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

- Aristophanes

We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

- Mario Puzo

Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.

- Sextus Propertius

I'm just grateful to be on this planet. I have no enemies that I know of. I'm just the guy who makes happy.

- Chubby Checker

Forgive your enemies, but first get even.

- Lester Cole

I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.

- Cecil Beaton

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

- Benjamin Franklin

Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.

- Sophocles

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

- P. D. James

But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.

- Paul Harris