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Quotes About Foes

When the fair light of morning rose The princely tamers of their foes
~ V?lm?ki
If the nature of her foes would speak to the credit of Bridget's death, then surely the nature of her allies would speak even more loudly about clearly of her life.
~ Jim Butcher
It is always better to admire the best among our foes rather than the worst among our friends
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
I confess that I admired him, even though he was my enemy. It is always better to admire the best among our foes rather than the worst among our friends.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
It is always better to admire the best among our foes rather than the worst among our friends. Wouldn't you agree, Commandant?
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Strangers are friends whom we yet to meet and our foes are nobody but strangers.
~ Unknown
Our foes will provide us with arms.
~ Virgil
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 like 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
Advance our standards, set upon our foes; Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George, Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!
~ William Shakespeare
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
~ William Wycherley
With some enemies, it's safer to let them destroy themselves.
~ Rachel Caine
Foes can choose to rely on international sympathies for the weak, to fan Americans' moral qualms, to play for time, and so ride out air attacks.
~ Unknown
The Taliban probably found it all amusing, as the ignorant occupiers essentially provided their foes' death benefits.
~ Unknown
The great thing about attackers is that there are so many to choose from!
~ Daniel J. Bernstein
By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers.
~ Mercy Otis Warren
A superhero movie is only as great as its villains.
~ Chadwick Boseman
I love villains.
~ Kate Herron
Matthew 10:36," he'd said. "And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. Never forget that, Agent Lacoste.
~ Louise Penny
My foes have missed their mark in this shooting at me: I am not the man: I wish that they themselves be guiltless.  If all the fornicators and adulterers in England were hanged up by the neck till they be dead, John Bunyan, the object of their envy, would be still alive and well. 
~ John Bunyan
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
~ Oscar Wilde
Nemeses aren't born. They are made.
~ Roxane Gay
'Tis no small miracle how God has so long preserved and protected this book; for the devil and the world are sore foes to it.
~ Unknown
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail, Our lion now will foreign foes assail.
~ John Dryden
Thou at the sight Pleased, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile, While by thee raised I ruin all my foes, Death last, and with his carcass glut the grave.
~ John Milton