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Quotes About Enemies

We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Best way to keep your secrets from your enemies is to stop telling your friends.
~ Unknown
Beware of enemies who come disguised as friends, if a person hates you they won't want to see you succeeding at anything and they will try to discourage you whenever they get the chance.
~ Unknown
We can tolerate our true enemies, but not the back stabbers and betrayers.
~ Unknown
The Worst harm comes from where you lastly expect it. So forget about your enemies and think what your friends will do.
~ Unknown
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
~ Oscar Wilde
Blessed is the man that hath filled the desire with them; he shall not be confounded when he shall speak to his enemies in the gate.
~ Unknown
When it's my time, and the reaper calls my name, there will be no stink of fear on me, and my only wish will be to die with grace, covered in the blood of my enemies.
~ Cedric Nye, Jango's Anthem
I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.
~ Pericles
Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.
~ C. S. Lewis
Nemeses aren't born. They are made.
~ Roxane Gay
To defeat all their enemies and be victorious! This is the unpreventable destiny of all the great ideas!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.
~ Brian Mulroney
How silly of her not to realize that strongest friends make the best enemies; they always know where the weaknesses are hidden.
~ Diana Palmer
The experience of the 1930s shows that it is not in ceding to the demands of one's enemies, and seeking compromise, that democracy has a chance to save itself, but rather in affirming its values and being ready to fight to defend them
~ Unknown
Have you ever stopped to think in your own personal life why God permits certain people to cross your path? Do you wish that you had never met certain people? Are there people whom you would call your enemies? Someone may have caused you sorrow, but it is all for His purpose. God has permitted all that for a particular purpose. Learn to recognize the hand of God in your life.
~ J. Vernon McGee
Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you" (Matthew 5:44). This is to show the mind of Christ. This is the right way to heap coals of fire on an enemy's head and to melt foes into friends (Romans 12:20).
~ J.C. Ryle
Darth Vader is only interested in Luke's friends as bait. Maybe we can create a situation where they become friends, with Han and Leia and Vader all sitting down to dinner together—the evil Count having dinner with his enemies.
~ J.W. Rinzler
An external enemy is a wonderful thing for politicians to have," Rione said dryly. "They can excuse and justify a great many things by pointing to that enemy. But that doesn't mean external enemies are never real. What is that old saying? Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean someone isn't really out to get you.
~ Jack Campbell
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
~ Jack Canfield
The admiral was clearly more concerned with force diversity and the push to open the SEAL Teams to females than he was with crushing America's enemies. Whatever got him his next star.
~ Unknown
Mongols invaded India, one general built a pyramid in front of the walls of Delhi to terrify the remaining enemies into surrender. Pyramids aren't scary though, surely? Well, this one was, being made from ninety thousand human heads.
~ Jack Goldstein
When the Mongols invaded India, one general built a pyramid in front of the walls of Delhi to terrify the remaining enemies into surrender. Pyramids aren't scary though, surely? Well, this one was, being made from ninety thousand human heads.
~ Jack Goldstein
Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.
~ Unknown