Enemies Quotes

Sometimes it's best to let your opponent think he has control.

~ Rae Carson

Great. Now Renata would have even more reason to dislike her. Jane would have an enemy. The last time she had had anything close to an enemy, she was in primary school herself. It had never crossed her mind that sending your child to school would be like going back to school yourself.

~ Liane Moriarty

An idle tongue is the mother of all conflicts.

~ Dennis E. Adonis

A person with no enemies is a person with no personality.

~ Jeffrey Fry

In this life, no matter what you do-you will never be able to satisfy everyone. So stay true to yourself and do you. Trying to please others, you will only end up angry and dissatisfied with life.

~ Authoress Redd

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves. There are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service — but how different is their cause from ours! They will be fighting for pay — and not much of at that; we, on the contrary, shall fight for Greece, and our hearts will be in it. As for our foreign troops — Thracians, Paeonians, Illyrians, Agrianes — they are the best and stoutest soldiers in Europe, and they will find as their opponents the slackest and softest of the tribes of Asia. And what, finally, of the two men in supreme command? You have Alexander, they — Darius!

~ Alexander The Great

Revenge in the hands of your enemies is a loaded gun. You can beg them for mercy, wave the white flag of surrender, but the only true elixir for the vitriol they bestow is a measure of hatred dispensed of your own.

~ Addison Moore

At this hourLie at my mercy all mine enemies.

~ William Shakespeare

You can be justified in attacking someone, physically or verbally, but the satisfaction it brings is limited; it often leaves you with a bad feeling in the long run and gets you more involved with someone you'd like to stay away from.

~ Michael I. Bennett

It's always funny that you can try and try again to steal all your critics' ammo, predict their responses, but no matter what, they'll still have a water gun stashed somewhere.

~ Criss Jami

I love my enemies for two reasons: they inspire me to recognise my weakness. They also inspire me to perfect my imperfect nature.

~ Sri Chinmoy

The way you blunder from one catastrophe to the next, it's a wonder the whole galaxy doesn't hate you.The galaxy is a big place, General. You provincial military types don't get far enough out to really see that.-General Tagon & Captain Kevyn Andreyasn

~ Howard Tayler

I've been at some pains to tell you about myself because among other reasons I think we should know who our enemies are. I've known people to spend their lives nursing a hatred of phantoms and they were not happy people.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

Find an enemy for life and you've no more need of a doctor.

~ Sascha Arango

Hatred begins to emerge like love and it's not too far from love.

~ Auliq Ice

And there was Ambrose. To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavours of our relationship. It was more like the two of us entered into a business partnership in order to more efficiently pursue our mutual interest of hating each other.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

And, to be true, an enemy's lair is an enemy's lair, no matter how comfortable or fancy it might appear.

~ Steven J. Carroll

To Polyakov it was as though a fierce wind from downstream was sweeping up the Volga. Several times he was knocked off his feet; he fell to the ground no longer knowing what world he lived in, whether he was old or young, what was up and what was down. But Klimov dragged him along and finally they slid to the bottom of a huge crater. Here the darkness was threefold: the darkness of night, the darkness of dust and smoke, the darkness of a deep pit.They lay there beside one another; the same soft light, the same prayer for life filled both their heads. It was the same light, the same touching hope that glows in all heads and all hearts – in those of birds and animals as well as in those of human beings.

~ Vasily Grossman

Sometimes our enemies are disguise as family and friends. You must forgive yourself for having chosen to trust those people who don't care about your life and seek nothing but failure for you. Stop wasting your precious time in trying to make those people see you, understand you, respect you, value you and love you because in the end it all becomes a pointless negative fight for validation that will drain your happiness. Enjoy life by surrounding yourself with those who inspire you and truly demonstrate their love for you. It gets complicated at times but eventually, you will know your worth & leave the trash behind.

~ Jesus Apolinaris

Negative people will always be there to stain your pure image with their dirty tongues and brushes, but you'll always remain as white as snow, no matter how high the quality of paint they use.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your enemies are not to be destroyed, grant them longevity to witness your success.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

~ Sun Tzu

He finds he cannot think of the dying men at all. Into his mind instead strays the picture of More on the scaffold, seen through the veil of rain: his body, already dead, folding back neatly from the impact of the axe. The cardinal when he fell had no persecutor more relentless than Thomas More. Yet, he thinks, I did not hate him. I exercised my skills to the utmost to persuade him to reconcile with the king. And I thought I would win him, I really thought I would, for he was tenacious of the world, tenacious of his person, and had a good deal to live for. In the end he was his own murderer. He wrote and wrote and he talked and talked, then suddenly at a stroke he cancelled himself. If ever a man came close to beheading himself, Thomas More was that man.

~ Hilary Mantel

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

~ C.s. Lewis

The most dangerous enemy is not the one who lingers behind you in the shadows, but the one who walks beside you as a friend.

~ Bianca Scardoni

I have only one question, my sister and my friend,” she said, so earnestly that Kethry came out of her own fear and looked deeply into the shadowed eyes that met hers. “And that is this; which way do you want them sliced—lengthwise, or widthwise?

~ Mercedes Lackey

Always be Alert and Expect anything when you around your enemies or haters.

~ Reverend-Leon

What’s going on?”“Nothing.” She coughed, and released Talaith’s hand. “Exceptyou have some powerful enemies.”“Tell me what I don’t know, witch.”“Powerful enemies who are gods.”For a moment, Annwyl was shocked beyond all reason…thenshe shrugged. “Now that I think of it—I don’t know why I would besurprised.

~ G.a. Aiken

An angry enemy is a conquered enemy

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend, march swiftly to places where you are not expected.

~ Sun Tzu

The two studied one another for what seemed hours, neither saying a word. Jaden’s first inclination was to yell and demand his freedom, but something held him back. Here was a new man, and a new set of mind games. He waited for the old man to speak first and introduce himself, as Dalton had upon their first formal meeting. The stranger remained silent.

~ Courtney Kirchoff

Chasing ghosts while pursued by daemons...

~ Gail Carriger

Her father had always said that a man could be fairly judged by the quality of his allies and that of his enemies.

~ Jim Butcher

Our enemy is [. . .] and all people like him, who never question their motives or doubt their desires. They are put on this earth to cause misery, because what they take so freely for themselves comes always at great cost to others.

~ Susan Rivers

The merciful man is rarely victorious. One's enemies are like snakes; though one may learn to handle them, they are always poisonous.

~ Karen Essex

I know God love me, because my enemies don’t triumph over me.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

The best way to vanquish your enemies on the Internet? Ignore them. 

~ Austin Kleon

I never wanted to be prominent enough to have enemies.

~ Rabih Alameddine

The thing is, Ms. Embers, they aren’t exactly on our side.

~ Embee