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Quotes About Enmity

If Cecelia was my enemy, that was because (as I now believe) she saw me as her enemy. As the town's barber, as the host of that mostly masculine enclosure, the barbershop, and as the town's permanent bachelor, a piece of raw material permanently raw, forever to be unimproved by a woman of her discriminating powers, I must have seemed to her to be the very gatekeeper of that unregulated other world that Roy eased away into whenever he eased away.
~ Wendell Berry
I am the enemy you killed, my friend I knew you in this dark, for so you frowned Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed I parried, but my hands were loath and cold Let us sleep now.
~ Wilfred Owen
Victory breeds hatred
~ Will Durant
Nothing brings people together more than mutual hatred.
~ Henry Rollins
There remained only rare periods of amorousness that came over the spouses, but they did not last long. These were islands that they would land on temporarily, but then they would put out again to the sea of concealed enmity that expressed itself in estrangement from each other.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?
~ Ray Bradbury
Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
~ Sigmund Freud
They were a part of his bones and the bones of every IceWing. We hate NightWings. They stole from us. They are all liars and backstabbers and monsters.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
He could put her safely back in the category of "Despicable, Conniving NightWings I Hate.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
It always seems to be important to have at least one person in the vicinity to hate.
~ David Foster Wallace
Peace? I hate the word as I hate hell and all Montagues.
~ William Shakespeare
A plague on both your houses.
~ William Shakespeare
Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.
~ William Shakespeare
By my head, here come the Capulets. Mercutio- By my heel, I care not.
~ William Shakespeare
This hand shall never more come near thee with such friendship
~ William Shakespeare
I do believe, induced by potent circumstances That thou art mine enemy.
~ William Shakespeare
what? drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word as I hate Hell, all Montagues, and thee
~ William Shakespeare
Just because you're the enemy of my enemy don't mean you're my friend, Han thought.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
God does not say that He will be our God if we do this or that thing. But He says that He will put enmity, that He will be our God, and that in Christ He will grant us all things. The covenant of grace can throughout the centuries remain the same because it depends entirely upon God and because God is the Immutable One and the Faithful One.
~ Herman Bavinck
I missed you," I whisper against his skin and feel dizzy with the intimacy of the admission, feel more naked than when he could see every inch of me. "In the mortal world, when I thought you were my enemy, I still missed you." "My sweet nemesis, how glad I am that you returned.
~ Holly Black
Our most cruel enemies are our nearest in blood!... Kings have neither brothers, nor sons, nor mothers.
~ Unknown
So an honest man is the common enemy.
~ Honore de Balzac
Don't you know the man whose life you spare will always hate you?
~ Lian Hearn
If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soon you'll hate a hundred people.
~ Jerry Spinelli