Enemy Quotes

United you will be more than a match for your enemies. But if you quarrel and separate, your weakness will put you at the mercy of those who attack you.

~ Aesop

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

Satan will not ask you to carry a chair and sit with him, instead he will snatch the chair from your hands and dismantle your body with it.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform, I was on active duty all my time at school, I killed my enemy there.

~ John Knowles

If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.

~ Idries Shah

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

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy, a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

~ Maya Angelou

Who in the universe halts when the enemy tells them to?

~ Sherwood Smith

Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.

~ George R.r. Martin

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

You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

~ Lisa Kleypas

A friend who betrays you is an enemy.

~ Gift Gugu Mona

The enemy of my enemy may be my friend … of course the friend of my friend is often a jerk.

~ Mark Lawrence

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, men said, but the enemy of my friend is my enemy.

~ George R.r. Martin

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

To have a good enemy, choose a friend: he knows where to strike.

~ Joe Abercrombie

A friend or an enemy can tell me something about my subjective being, a casual lover can judge my body — the man I love judges my entire being. Every one of his caresses tells me how I am: attractive, desirable. Every one of his questions and answers tells me what I am: a person with whom he wants to enjoy himself, who interests him more than all the others he knows. By choosing me among all others, my love has made me unique; I alone in all the world am the one he loves, and no other. If I am lucky in love, the definitions become more precise from day to day; after each date I know even better than before what I want to know about myself. The others can say what they like about me; I don't have to believe a word of it. Only the one I love can tell me about myself. Since his definitions grow increasingly precise, my dependence on him also grows more acute as time goes on, but he is in the same position with regard to me. I tell him that I belong to him alone, that he can do with me what he likes, that I cannot live without him.

~ Esther Vilar

Never be in a hurry to condemn a friend, never be in haste to embrace an enemy.

~ Paul Bamikole

A singer who refused to sing, a friend who wasn't her friend, someone who was hers and yet would never be hers. Kestrel looked away from Arin. She swore to herself that she would never look back

~ Marie Rutkoski

The person who has never made an enemy will never make a friend.

~ Peter Tremayne

A fool friend always does something that the enemy wishes.

~ Alireza Salehi Nejad

Both friend and enemy, Faith leads us to the place where we lead ourselves.

~ Joanne St.clair

It is hard to make the boat go as fast as you want to. The enemy of course, is resistance of the water, as you have to displace the amount of water equal to the weight of the men and equipment, but that very water is what supports you and that very enemy is your friend. So is life: the very problems you must overcome also support you and make you stronger in overcoming them.

~ George Yeoman Pocock

One wide-awake persistent enemy may be worth twenty friends. Friends point out all the good things you do. You know all about that. Your enemies point out your mistakes. Get yourself a first-class enemy, cultivate him, and when you achieve success thank him.

~ Harold Hobbs

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

~ Dan Wells

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.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

It’s the enemy of your enemy who is your friend Sophie, not the friend of your friend.

~ Somi Ekhasomhi

I’ve never paid any attention to time. Dancer says I’ve enjoyed a luxury most people never have. He hates clocks and watches and everything that has to do with time. He says people already have too many lost days and that most folks live in the past or the future but never the present, always saying stuff like “I’m unhappy because ‘X’ happened to me yesterday, or I’ll be happy again when ‘Y’ happens to me tomorrow.” He says time is the ultimate villain.

~ Karen Marie Moning

If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then a friend of my enemy, is my enemy.

~ Pyreglide

My first rule of war, Cat-never give the enemy his wish

~ George R.r. Martin

I smile bitterly at him, then weave an illusion of his face across my own. Raffaele’s expression flickers in surprise for a moment before settling back into its pool of calm. “They may have a hard time finding me,” I reply.Raffaele gives me a tight smile in return. “Do not underestimate your enemies, Your Majesty,” he says.

~ Marie Lu

When you know your enemy is invincible,run and hide, or may do business with him.

~ Toba Beta

An angry enemy is a conquered enemy

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.

~ Sherwood Smith

If the enemy attacks, it is because God is giving you much more

~ Sunday Adelaja

Do no be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how the war ends.

~ Paulo Coelho

Do not be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how the war ends.

~ Paulo Coelho

But as much as this is a soldier's reason d'etre, it is not often that you hear a soldier explicitly talk about 'killing'. The k-word as a verb is instead often disguised and supplanted by any number of other euphemisms. In precise and technical military parlance, reflecting the ever more precise and technically removed means of killing, the 'enemy' becomes the 'target'. But for the soldiers who personally 'engage' these 'targets', these objects are colloquially 'slotted', 'dropped', 'hit', 'fragged', 'sawn in half', 'smashed' or just plain 'shot'.Then the soldier will have achieved the noun of a 'kill'. The author's supposition is that such words are used by the soldier in combat as an attempt to mentally dissociate himself from the reality of his actions, so he can continue to operate as a soldier - and perhaps, when all is finally said and done, as a human being back home.

~ Jake Wood

If you have to fight old enemies, you should do it with your own old soldiers.

~ Marius C.