Quotes with enemies

  • The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.
  • Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
  • Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning.
  • Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
  • The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
  • If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
  • You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
  • Exploring Castro's pawns in Cuba and exposing anything negative also makes you a pawn to all his enemies 90 miles away. Both sides don't have much of a track record for nuance of opinion.
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  • Oscar Wilde Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Martin Luther King In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • André Gide I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Voltaire In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Antisthenes Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
    Antisthenes
    Greek philosopher (445 - 365)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
    Original: Überzeugungen sind gefährlichere Feinde der Wahrheit als Lügen.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Sydney Smith His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Publilius Syrus It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • R A Dickson Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.
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  • Voltaire May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Ann Oakley Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane.
    Ann Oakley
    British sociologist, writer (1944 - )
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  • Stephen King Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
    The Gunslinger (1982) 145
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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