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Quotes About Foes

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
~ Aesop
I shall not miss the hectoring and backbiting and the lack of generosity towards fallen foes, but I will miss the sheer clubability of parliament. If one fancies a coffee or a meal or a drink then it is always possible to find at least one person out of 646 whose company is congenial.
~ Ann Widdecombe
The bad guys are the best parts.
~ Brion James
I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.
~ Liev Schreiber
I've always enjoyed bad guys throughout all movies.
~ The Miz
He embraced compromise as a necessary element of public life, engaged his political foes in the passage of important legislation, and was willing to break with the base of his own party in order to do what he thought was right, whatever the price. Quaint, yes: But it happened, in America, only a quarter of a century ago.
~ Jon Meacham
In my experience, you mon-keigh make a great many claims when it comes to your own prowess, awarding yourselves title after title, your psyches awash with the hope that such posturing will intimidate your foes." "Undeniably true, though that seems harsh criticism from a species that attaches poetic nonsense like" The Storm of Silence" and "The Cry of the Wind" to its demigods, no?
~ Aaron Dembski-Bowden
An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both his friends and foes.
~ Addison
You've got to have baddies that you can boo.
~ Richard C. Armitage
the Empire was naturally attracted towards the foes of its chief Indian foe, the Congress
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
Enemies' promises were made to be broken.
~ Aesop
We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
~ Aesop
Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.
~ Ignatius of Antioch
Every opponent in the Premier League is a warning.
~ Georginio Wijnaldum
Among the old Norse, it was the custom for certain warriors to dress in the skins of the beasts they had slain, and thus to give themselves an air of ferocity, calculated to strike terror into the hearts of their foes.
~ Sabine Baring-Gould
Batman has what is quite possibly the best rogues' gallery every created. People who have never read a comic can name half a dozen of his foes, and that's barely scratching the surface.
~ Gail Simone
He likes to humble our foes by making them seem ridiculous. As he said to me the other day, 'Kill a man, and you cede him honor in the eyes of the gods. Laugh at him and you shame him'.
~ Raymond E. Feist
Make friends unless you feel strong enough to make enemies
~ Reginald Hill
The peculiar nature of the materials it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.
~ Karl Marx
But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
~ Sophocles
The man that makes a character, makes foes.
~ Edward Young
God preserve me from idiots and men in love, which is the same thing.
~ M. V. Heberden
For siege works against bold and venturesome men should be constructed on one plan, on another against cautious men, and on still another against the cowardly.
~ Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain. As such, 'Mother' bless all.
~ Swami Vivekananda