Enemy
Definition: A person who is actively opposed or hostile to someone or something.
Number of Quotes: 26
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
Dean Acheson
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is
because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James Baldwin
Glass is, in general, the enemy of secrets. It is also the enemy of possession.
Experience and Poverty
Walter Benjamin
I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
William Blake
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Elizabeth Bowen
Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe,
Bold I can meet - perhaps may turn his blow!
But of all plagues, Good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save, save, Oh, save me from the candid friend!
George Canning
Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine
mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
Betty Friedan
Many owe their greatness to their enemies. Flattery is fiercer than hatred, for hatred corrects the faults flattery had disguised.
Baltasar Gracián
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and the simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
Graham Greene
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard
Nobody ever fergits where he buried a hatchet.
Kin Hubbard
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy
Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan
The press is the enemy.
Richard Nixon
Do not delegate an assignment and then attempt to manage it yourself - you will make an enemy of the overruled subordinate.
Wess Roberts
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
I don't mind what the opposition say of me, so long as they don't tell the truth about me; but
when they descend to telling the truth about me, I consider that is taking an unfair advantage.
Mark Twain
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
Mark Twain
That is just the way of the world; an enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes
a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.
Mark Twain
Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the
fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.
Sun Tzu
My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.
God has granted it.
Voltaire
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
Be careful to choose your enemies well. Friends don't much matter. But the choice of enemies is very important.
Oscar Wilde
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too
careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me.
Oscar Wilde
Next to having a staunch friend is the pleasure of having a brilliant enemy.
Oscar Wilde
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