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Quotes About Enemies

A good king knows when to save his strength and when to destroy his enemies.
~ George R. R. Martin
The Lord of Light wants his enemies burnt. The Drowned God wants his enemies drowned. Why are all the gods such vicious cunts? Where is the god of tits and wine?
~ George R. R. Martin
Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.
~ George R.R. Martin
We only make peace with our enemies. That's why it's called making peace.
~ George R.R. Martin
Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.
~ George R.R. Martin
Everyone who isn't us is an enemy." - Cersei
~ George R.R. Martin
So if you must hate, Arya, hate those who would truly do us harm
~ George R.R. Martin
The gold of a lowland lord is as worthless as a half man's promises'' Gunthor said. ''Half a man I may be'' Tyrion said. ''Yet I have the courage to face my enemies. What do the Stone Crows do, but hide behind rocks and shiver with fear as the knights of the Vale ride by?
~ George R.R. Martin
A king had best know the names of his enemies, don't you think?
~ George R.R. Martin
Dogs and wolves and lions, may the Others take them all.
~ George R.R. Martin
Bran had told himself a hundred times how much he hated hiding down here in the dark, how much he wanted to see the sun again, to ride his horse through wind and rain. But now that the moment was upon him, he was afraid. He'd felt safe in the darkness; when you could not even find your own hand in front of your face, it was easy to believe that no enemies could ever find you either.
~ George R.R. Martin
Keep friends at your back and foes where you can see them.
~ George R.R. Martin
My enemies are everywhere, and my friends are fools.
~ George R.R. Martin
We had never built, never created, only stolen your garments and lived in your cities and fed ourselves on your life, your vitality, your very blood—but we could create, given a chance, we had it within us to whisper stories of cities of our own. The red thirst has been a curse, has made my race and yours enemies, has robbed my people of all noble aspirations.
~ George R.R. Martin
Kings have no friends, just subjects and enemies.
~ George R.R. Martin
This is madness, Catelyn thought. Real enemies on every side and half the realm in flames, and Renly sits here playing at war like a boy with his first wooden sword.
~ George R.R. Martin
In the Old Way, women might decorate themselves with ornaments bought with coin, but a warrior wore only the jewelry he took off the corpses of enemies slain by his own hand. Paying the iron price, it was called.
~ George R.R. Martin
Melisandre gazed up at it, her breath a warm moist cloud in the air. "This is my place as it is yours, and soon enough you may have grave need of me. Do not refuse my friendship, Jon. I have seen you in the storm, hard-pressed, with enemies on every side. You have so many enemies. Shall I tell you their names?
~ George R.R. Martin
May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.
~ George S. Patton Jr.
Everywhere liberty is surrounded by secret or open enemies
~ George Sanders
Permission to acknowledge our anger before God, however, is not license to act on our anger against others. Rather, as these psalms suggest, we should leave action against our enemies in the hands of God.
~ Gerald H. Wilson
Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
~ Charles Lamb