The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

~ Aesop

Aesop Arrows Birds Enemies Feathers

Be careful who you choose for an enemy because that is who you become most like, Anna tosses Nietzsche's quote up into the air. She serves up words she has heard me say in the past.

~ Patricia Cornwell

Patricia Cornwell Enemies

But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.

~ Danielle Trussoni

Danielle Trussoni Code Enemies Motto

He looks around at his guests. All are prepared. A Latin grace; English would be his choice, but he will suit his company. Who cross themselves ostentatiously, in papist style. Who look at him, expectant. He shouts for the waiters. The doors burst open. Sweating men heave the platters to the table. It seems the meat is fresh, in fact not slaughtered yet. It is just a minor breach of etiquette. The company must sit and salivate. The Boleyns are laid at his hand to be carved.

~ Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel Enemies

In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbour hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility. The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behaviour must be determined not by the way others treat him, but by the treatment he himself receives from Jesus; it has only one source, and that is the will of Jesus.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Christianity Enemies Love

This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench! Oh, god! Oh, god! Don't touch me—oh, god!

~ John Green

John Green Enemies Humor John Green Squirrels

Choose your friends carefully but don’t worry about your enemies, they will choose you

~ Carl Henegan

Carl Henegan Enemies

You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it--which is what matters most.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky Enemies Happiness Life Misfortune

Why is it considered so glorious to kill an enemy, when it is not considered contemptible to create one?

~ Anne E.g. Nydam

Anne E.g. Nydam Enemies Peace Peace Making

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

~ Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I Death Enemies Put

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

~ Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin Celebrate Enemies Our

Equality and prosperity shouldn't be seen as enemies of each other, but as partners. One reinforces the other.

~ Nicola Sturgeon

Nicola Sturgeon Prosperity Seen Enemies

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Nature Men Enemies

Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.

~ Jonas Gahr Store

Jonas Gahr Store Deep Win Enemies

To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.

~ Lionel Blue

Lionel Blue Surprise Wish Enemies

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

~ Dalton Trumbo

Dalton Trumbo People Chief Enemies

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

~ Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde Friends Disliked Enemies

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

~ Richard Holbrooke

Richard Holbrooke Friends You Enemies