Quotes About Foes

The mass and majesty of this world, all That carries weight and always weighs the same Lay in the hands of others; they were small And could not hope for help and no help came: What their foes liked to do was done, their shame Was all the worst could wish; they lost their pride And died as men before their bodies died. —W. H. AUDEN, "THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES

I have seen the faces of our enemies! I have looked into the eyes of our foes! Do you know what I have seen? [...] Faces and eyes, gentlemen. Faces and eyes.

Personally, no matter how tempting it might be, I make it a policy not to surgically bestow near invincibility upon the people who would most like to see me dead.

Russia was suddenly invaded by the Mongols, and, like locusts in a corn-field, those hideous and demoniacal foes fell upon her and made all Christendom tremble, so that the French historian Joinville records it as a sign of the coming of Antichrist. For our sins the unknown nations covered our land, say the Russian chroniclers.

He spoke in the deep tenderness of one about to leave his treasure amid perils and foes, where his remembered words would be the only aid he could bequeath to guide her.

so foes persue, and cold allies mistrust me, every one: let me be false in others' eyes if faithful in my own

Nothing is more disreputable than wasting a reputation where it cannot be flaunted, for fame fades fast in fighting filthy foes.

I am a leg of the death tripod that will destroy our foes.

Orcs do not have enemies." Monde tried to search for the proper term, "We have…adversaries.""Isn't that the same thing?""Depends on who's winning the war.

You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

The crisis of the old order in Europe produced nearly 80 years of often bloody conflict between democracy and its foes from 1914 to 1991.

Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.

However one evaluates the character of Constantine's conversion, he clearly believed that the Christian God was his ally. Thus the cross, or its counterpart, the christogram, became a trophy of victory, not only over demonic foes but also over ordinary human ones.

So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.

You can never have too many knives, his father had told him. Unless they're pointed at you, and by people who don't like you much.

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.

Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide.

Il coraggio incute rispetto anche ai nemici

Enemies are like furniture, aren't they? Better chosen for oneself than inherited.

I am a leg of the death tripod that will destroy our foes.

It is a good sign if the wicked hate us. If our foes were godly people, we would have cause for concern, but the hatred of the wicked is better than their love.

Out of a fired ship, which by no way But drowning could be rescued from the flame, Some men leap'd forth, and ever as they came Near the foes' ships, did by their shot decay; So all were lost, which in the ship were found, They in the sea being burnt, they in the burnt ship drown'd.

We shall choose our adversaries, not the other way around.