Quotes About Enemies

Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.

You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.

But, though persecuting malice raged, yet the Gospel shone with resplendent brightness; and, firm as an impregnable rock, withstood the attacks of its boisterous enemies with success.

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.

Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.

Die! No, no!' He cried. 'It was not worth living so long, and suffering so much, to die now. Death was welcome previously when I made a resolution to meet it, many years ago. But now it would truly be conceding too much to my miserable fate. No, I want to live, I want to struggle to the end. No, I want to recover the happiness that has been taken away from me. I am forgetting that, before I die, I have my enemies to punish and, who knows?—perhaps a few friends to reward.

So is it true, what our enemies say about us: nothing learned, nothing forgotten? (Talleyrand)

Every day he spoke of the immensity of the treasure, explaining to Dantes all the good a man could do for his friends in our modern times with such a fortune. At those moments Dantes' face would darken, for he thought of how much harm a man could do to his enemies in our modern times with such a fortune.

Les amis d'aujourd'hui sont les ennemis de demain.

I have only two enemies: I shall not say two conquerors, because with persistence I can make them bow to my will: they are distance and time. The third and most awful is my condition as a mortal man.

Les hommes vraiment généreux sont toujours prêts à devenir compatissants, lorsque le malheur de leur ennemi dépasse les limites de leur haine.

Madame," said the doctor, "they are not your enemies, but you are the enemy of the human race: nobody can think without, horror of your crimes.

I am forgetting that, before I die, I have my enemies to punish and, who knows? – perhaps a few friends to reward.

cuanto que los orientales no se limitan como Mitrídates, a hacer de los venenos una coraza. Hacen también de él un puñal. En sus manos la ciencia no es sólo una arma defensiva, sino a veces ofensiva. La una les sirve contra sus sufrimientos, la otra contra sus enemigos.

Am avut totuÈ™i È™i o companie mai pl?cut?, a p?s?rilor alungate de frigul din munÈ›i È™i câmpii È™i care au venit s?-È™i caute hrana pe lâng? locuinÈ›ele oamenilor, duÈ™manii lor, aÈ™ezându-se în familii sau colonii pe balconul meu, unde le pun mâncare È™i ap?: dar cred c? dup? ce vremea se va înc?lzi, ele m? vor p?r?si pentru totdeauna.

Il coraggio incute rispetto anche ai nemici

Next to hating their enemies, men are most inclined to flatter them.

Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends:

Those intellectuals are our natural enemies; the only kind who are worth anything are the musicians and the dancers: they don't insult anybody with their performances, and they neither sing nor dance politics. So I like them; but don't let me hear a word about the rest

Evil was predictable; it cloaked itself in righteousness, convinced its enemies must be punished.

They were such solitary creatures that when they met their mates they would begin to scream, for they were drawn to each other, yet were enemies still.

His virtues were so conspicuous that his enemies, unable to overlook them, denied them, and his friends, to whose loose lives they were a rebuke, represented them as vices. They are here commemorated by his family, who shared them. In

That's what war does. Strips people and places of their identities and turns them into enemies in a line, positions to be taken, resources to be foraged. Anonymous things that can be carelessly crushed, and stolen, and burned without guilt.

You can have enemies you never really meet, Logen had plenty. You can kill men you don't know, he'd done it often. But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first, and there's always a trace of that love left over.