The Enemy Quotes

Time is truly the great enemy. It's not the great healer, it's the great stealer.

I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.

The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.

In Jesus and for Him, enemies and friends alike are to be loved.

The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil.

Moslems are no less an enemy than the Jews.

If you want sympathy, look for a friend, but if you want honesty, an enemy might be the best friend you ever had.

The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.

We fear our enemy but the bigger and real fear is that of a fake friend who is sweetest to your face and most vile behind your back.

You cannot blame everything on the enemy.

Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don't have causes. They only have enemies.

Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)

It is wrong to make anyone into an enemy; it is wrong to scare the people of one's own country with that enemy and try to rally some allies on that basis.

This is no time to be making new enemies.

Fear is the enemy of curiosity.

People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.

The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time.

[Dissidents] groups would benefit enormously from learning about Ho Chi Minh's ideas on how to defeat a more popular enemy.

After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.

I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

An enemy is like a man's most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground.

Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.

Having a relationship with people of questionable character is like playing with a razor blade on your skin, and pretending to observe that it is harmful to your body.

There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend.

A man without enemies is a dishonest man.

Don't become a random photograph in the eyes of friends, and even your enemies, for each glance at your face will cause a declination of value and reputation. Create value, through scarcity.

The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.

And this was your friend?" Cordelia raised her eyebrows. "Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.

Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.

I think the worst enemy for success is the anxiousness to get it.

Your enemy's enemy is your friend

Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he's underground.

Those brain-zapped kids weren’t the only - or maybe even the worst - enemy.

The only good enemy is a dead enemy.

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

Fame is not your friend. It ain't necessarily your enemy. It is what it is.

The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy.

The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

Do I not damage my enemies after i make them my close friends?

Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . . nor of torture to extort confessions.

All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.

Paris must either not fall into the hands of the enemy or the enemy must find it only a wasteland.

Thank God I've always avoided persecuting my enemies.

If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?

Our thought is our big enemy, guided by ego that walks on evil path

It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies.