Quotes About Enmity

When you're rivals, you can never be friends.

The person who has never made an enemy will never make a friend.

you whites are so great that you disdain to remember your enemies.

Regarding vengeance and arch-enemies, one must not only be timely but prideful, and pride exacts propriety.

Capulet! Montague! See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love!

The person who has no enemies also has no friends

Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone else's. Their reward is being a cut above the rest. This is the enmity of pride.

Benefit your friends; make sure your enemies suffer from being your enemies.

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.

We can so easily slip back from what we have struggled to attain, abruptly, into a life we never wanted; can find that we are trapped, as in a dream, and die there, without ever waking up. This can occur. Anyone who has lifted his blood into a years-long work may find that he can't sustain it, the force of gravity is irresistible, and it falls back, worthless. For somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work.

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

Harboring enmity and seeking revenge only perpetuates the power of oppressors to lord it over their victims long after the deed was done. Thus, at the most fundamental level, forgiveness spells liberation for the victim

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Not surprisingly, South Carolina acted first. "There is nothing in all the dark caves of human passion so cruel and deadly as the hatred the South Carolinians profess for the Yankees." wrote the correspondent of the London Times from Charleston. The enmity of Greek for Turk was child's play "compared to the animosity evinced by the 'gentry' of South Carolina for the 'rabble of the North.' … The State of South Carolina was,' I am

You don't understand,' she said. In her lap, the loose hands had ground together: between the fair brows a single line showed, of anger and disgust and a kind of futile perplexity. 'You don't understand: how can you? You were born into a household, with parents and wealth; you knew your friends and your enemies; you knew your position in life; whom you were fighting for: whom you were against. I am alone. Every man is my enemy.

Enemies! People these days don't have enemies ! Not English people!

We are not pleasant people here, for the story of war is always the story of hate; it makes no difference with whom one fights. The hate destroys you.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

Life is not calculus, you cold-hearted… algorithm." "Life might not be," I said, steeling myself against his enmity. "But in medicine we use our energies to help those we can, not those we cannot.

Look, we have long known that birds and pigs are mortal enemies. That's just the way of the world. Birds hate pigs.

Human beings may hate a distant enemy in theory, but they generally prefer to kill their neighbors.

Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand.

Of any mortal on this world, Tinuva was foremost on Bovai's list of those who must die at his hands. His very existence was an affront to Bovai, a stain on the honour of his family and clan.

look carefully at any region of the world where you find intractable enmity and violence between rival groups today. I cannot guarantee that you'll find religions as the dominant labels for in-groups and out-groups. But it's a good bet.