Quotes About Enemies

It's the burglars!" quavered Mrs. Hignett. In the stress of recent events she had completely forgotten the existence of those enemies of society. "They were dancing in the hall when I arrived, and now they're playing the orchestrion!" "Light-hearted chaps!" said Eustace, admiring the sang-froid of the criminal world. "Full of spirits!

Wooster: Wait a second; this white mess jacket is brand new. Jeeves: I assumed it had got into your wardrobe by mistake, sir, or else it had been placed there by your enemies.

Normally he was fond of most things. He was a good-natured and cheerful young man, who liked life and the great majority of those who lived it contemporaneously with himself. He had no enemies and many friends. But today he had noticed from the moment he had got out of bed that something was amiss with the world. Either he was in the grip of some divine discontent due to the highly developed condition of his soul, or else he had a grouch. One of the two.

Struggles of the battlefields pale into insignificance here, when man first contends with inward enemies! No mortal foes these, to be overcome by harrowing array of might! Omnipresent, unresting, pursuing man even in sleep, subtly equipped with a miasmic weapon, these soldiers of ignorant lusts seek to slay us all. Thoughtless is the man who buries his ideals, surrendering to the common fate. Can he seem other than impotent, wooden, ignominious?

To cultivate a mental attitude that will bring you peace and happiness, remember that Rule 2 is: Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

Let's love ourselves so much that we won't permit our enemies to control our happiness, our health, and our looks

Below the bust are carved these wise words from General Obregon's philosophy: Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

Fortunately for you, we British judge man's civility not by his compassion for his friends, but by his compassion for his enemies

I hope that on the morning of my forty-ninth birthday, in Hemingway's last moments, he might have been thinking, if his sorrow and depression allowed him such a luxury as coherent thought, not only of his final, decisive, twelve-gauge gesture of ultimate defiance but also of any victories he had won in his long-running war against invisible enemies.

you can judge a man by his choice of enemies as well as or better than by his choice of friends

No love is real, no love is everlasting unless it is done for the sake of Allah. This is why love which is done while disobeying Allah is usually broken, ends up in hurt, and both people usually end up as enemies, or go down for other evil after this, unless Allah saves them and blesses them with his guidance.

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.

In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

When it is impossible for anger to arise within you, you find no outside enemies anywhere. An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.

Today you are standing in a position that would please the friend and would anger the enemy and all the infidels. You will be victorious against the enemies and you are causing them to suffer.

I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends.

It is through our anger and hatred that we transform people into enemies.

Anger, pride and competence are our real enemies.

It is useless to try to adjudicate a long-standing animosity by asking who started it or who is the most wrong. The only sufficient answer is to give up the animosity and try forgiveness, to try to love our enemies and to talk to them and (if we pray) to pray for them. If we can't do any of that, then we must begin again by trying to imagine our enemies' children who, like our children, are in mortal danger because of enmity that they did not cause.

I was glad enough that I had not become a preacher, and so would not have to go through a war pretending that Jesus had not told us to love our enemies.

One has sufficient enemies amongst men without deliberately seeking out others amongst the gods.

We meet as mortal enemies hereafter - let us, like gallant gentlemen, exchange polite attentions in the meantime.

God preserve me from my friends," he concluded; "I will take care of my enemies myself.