Quotes About Enmity

Do good to thy Friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

Right, Annabelle," Jackie said. "I'm sure if Joya were alive today, they'd have a grand old time. At least Joya would. She'd just love to tear at Camille. Remember those long, long nails of hers? Never painted them. I always thought that was weird.

Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.

Karla is reasonably good at being a friend, but she is stupendously good at being an enemy. When you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy. And there is no-one in this city that makes a worse or more dangerous enemy than Karla.

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

Gwen hates me," she reminded him. "Don't be narcissistic. She hates everyone.

Go now, he said harshly, before I forget that there can never be anything but enmity between you and me.

Wenn ich nicht Liebe einflößen kann, werde ich Furcht verbreiten, und vor allem dir, mein Erzfeind, weil mein Schöpfer, schwöre ich unauslöschlichen Hass.

soon enter upon a journey where your sufferings will satisfy my everlasting hatred

Montagues and Capulets, French and English, Whig and Tory, Airbus and Boeing, Pepsi and Coke, Serb and Muslim, Christian and Saracen – we are irredeemably tribal creatures. The neighbouring or rival group, however defined, is automatically an enemy. Argentinians and Chileans hate each other because there is nobody else nearby to hate.

The answer to your inquiry is quite simple. You have no need for enemies. You play that role for yourself with perfection. - Kurt Eisenhuth

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

To love our enemy is impossible. The moment we understand our enemy, we feel compassion towards him/her, and he/she is no longer our enemy.

As I think of the many myths, there is one that is very harmful, and that is the myth of countries. I mean, why should I think of myself as being an Argentine, and not a Chilean, and not an Uruguayan. I don't know really. All of those myths that we impose on ourselves -- and they make for hatred, for war, for enmity -- are very harmful. Well, I suppose in the long run, governments and countries will die out and we'll be just, well, cosmopolitans.

I pay for every friend I make with a hundred enemies!

Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.

Esos relámpagos describen un vasto y convulso círculo que corta los frentes y parece reunir a amigos y enemigos en una misma obra de destrucción. El conjunto produce la impresión de un jubiloso triunfo de los elementos, de una ígnea erupción de la Tierra misma; frente a ello, el ser humano, que en pequeñas hordas oscuras cruza a la carrera las sombras, representa un papel minúsculo e insignificante.

Don't drink heavily at your enemy's table, especially when your enemy claims to be your friend.

The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended.

What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.

Bir anlamda herkes dü?man. Dü?man?m. Dü?man?m?z. Ya da günü gelince dü?man olabilir.

Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.

To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.

There is a holy story that tells of a man who was fulfilled by sowing his enemy's field one night. Bjartur's story is the story of a man who sowed his enemy's field all his life, day and night. Such is the story of the most independent man in the country. Moors; more moors. From the ravine there came an eerie echoing rumble as the headstone crashed its way down, and the bitch sprang to the brink, barking wildly.