Enemy Quotes

Through the medium of prayer we go to our enemy, stand by his side, and plead for him to God.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You have to make an enemy a friend to conquer his or her evil intentions.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.

~ Ovid

You know you walk in the light when the enemy keeps reminding you of your past mistakes, because the enemy's role is to derail into darkness.

~ Gift Gugu Mona

Your level is above the reach of the devil... Keep it in mind; as long as you are in the light of God, you bind him (the devil) tight!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A friend is the wax that keeps the flame lit, an enemy is the wind that blows it out.

~ Anthony Liccione

My father wrote: Always question where your loyalties lie. The people you trust will expect it, your greatest enemies will desire it, and those you treasure the most, will, without fail, abuse it.

~ Emily Thorne

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

A good enemy can be better than the best of friend.

~ Simona Panova

When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

That I feed the beggar, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ, all these are undoubtedly great virtues. What I do unto the least o’ my brethren, that I do unto Christ. But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yeah, the very fiend himself, that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved. What then? Then, as a rule, the whole truth of Christianity is reversed: there is then no more talk of love and long-suffering; we say to the brother within us “Raca,” and condemn and rage against ourselves. We hide him from the world, we deny ever having met this least among the lowly in ourselves, and had it been God himself who drew near to us in this despicable form, we should have denied him a thousand times before a single cock had crowed.

~ C.g. Jung

Forgiveness is the best way to disempower the enemy.

~ Gift Gugu Mona

Forgiveness is the best way to disempower an enemy.

~ Gugu Mona

When you forgive your enemy, you may no longer have one.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

The best gift that we can give to our enemy is not war, but forgiveness and peace.

~ Debasish Mridha

On the positive side, a strong sense of comradely loyalty triggers genuine affection and friendship. On the negative side, it may strengthen contempt for the lives of opponents and, of course, the loss of a comrade may be followed by even greater brutality in battle.

~ Nel Noddings

Though his death would not fill me with any sense of sadness, I would probably feel the loss. Even enemies are part of one.

~ Jasper Fforde

He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept him up at night.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I sometimes think that 'friend' is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet.

~ Scott Lynch

In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.

~ Thomas Harris

A bad friend is nothing but a spy

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A mafia could never kill an alliance. That’s how you become safe from the enemy, you befriend them.

~ Basma Salem

Charles Schwab: Be friends with everybody. When you have friends you will know there is somebody who will stand by you. You know the old saying, that if you have a single enemy you will find him everywhere. It doesn’t pay to make enemies. Lead the life that will make you kind and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.

~ John C. Maxwell

If you are completely surrounded by the enemies, this proves that you are damn stupid in matters of making friends and such a stupidity, such a miserable clumsiness is your biggest enemy!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A bad friend is is worse than an enemy, an enemy you can see and avoid, but to detect an insincere friend is hard

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Today's enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today's friends can be tomorrow's enemies.

~ Suzy Kassem

Enemy: A friend whose mask has fallen

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Friend: A potential enemy with whom relations have not yet deteriorated to all-out war

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Keep your friends close and your enemies dead.

~ Paul Dale

When you are without friends, the next best thing is an enemy who knows you well.

~ Midnight Blue

I am not stopping till my enemies become my friends.

~ Amit Kalantri

When things are like hunky dory, every enemy comes in the name of friend, but when things are twisted like turmoil, every friendly enemy shows you their colour.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Who knows you more...your friend or your enemy? It's your enemy that pursues with passion while your friend engages at leisure.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Enemies are the people who think about you more than your friends do.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

You cannot be betrayed by your enemies, only your friends.

~ Brian D. Anderson

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

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Women most often have a difficult enemy and she is a woman and not a man.

~ Debasish Mridha

A man without enemies is a dishonest man.

~ Daniel J. Rice

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.

~ Paul Hoffman

Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor