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Quotes About Enmity

The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
~ Walter Winchell
God is either your worst enemy or your best friend.
~ Matthew Henry
I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy
~ Scott Westerfeld
En las alturas, la Nobleza y el Poder; abajo, el Comercio y el Dinero; dos esferas sociales que en todas partes son perpetuamente enemigas; por ello es difícil adivinar cuál de las dos ciudades odiaba más a su rival.
~ Honore de Balzac
Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.
~ Idries Shah
Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Truthful man: He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy.
~ Idries Shah
From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.
~ Idries Shah
I'm neither your friend nor your frenemy, unless you have what I want. In that case, I'm not only your enemy, I'm your nightmare.
~ Lisa Scottoline
I can feel sympathy for his loss and his pain without affecting who I am and my opposition to all that Viktor Kain is and stands for. When we lose our empathy for others and allow our enmity to spiral downward and twist into mindless hate, we are no better than the Viktor Kains of the world. Compassion is our strength, not our weakness." She paused. "And it is a treasure that is meant to be shared. Do you understand?
~ Unknown
Because never had I hated another human being more than I hated Paratore in that moment.
~ Lisa Tawn Bergren
Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.
~ Liu Xiaobo
Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
~ Lord Byron
You suck. You suck diseased moose wang, Marcone.
~ Jim Butcher
The problem is that I'm Josef Weber's friend. but Reiner Hartmann is my enemy. So what do I do, now that they are the same man?
~ Jodi Picoult
You may find your best friend or your worst enemy in yourself
~ English proverb
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him your friend but remember an old one will never become your friend.
~ Unknown
the Bible says, "Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God" (James 4:4).
~ Unknown
He bares his yellow teeth in a smile at me. 'Everyone is always our enemy,' he says. 'But right now, we are winning.
~ Philippa Gregory
What he does not know is that his greatest friend of all, the man he loves as a brother, has become indeed like a brother: as false to him as any envious rivalrous brother of York.
~ Philippa Gregory
When I began to talk with him, I could not help thinking that he was not really wise, although he was thought wise by many, and still wiser by himself; and thereupon I tried to explain to him that he thought himself wise, but was not really wise; and the consequence was that he hated me, and his enmity was shared by several who were present and heard me.
~ Plato
La enemistad entre allegados se llama discordia; entre extraños, se llama guerra.
~ Plato
important, founding concepts of telepathy was enunciated by Paracelsus (1493?-1541), the famous (some said infamous) Swiss physician, chemist, and alchemist, whose egotism and contempt for traditional theories earned him the enmity of his learned contemporaries. Even so, he gained
~ Unknown
The social function of economic science consists precisely in developing sound economic theories and in exploding the fallacies of vicious reasoning. In the pursuit of this task the economist incurs the deadly enmity of all mountebanks and charlatans whose shortcuts to an earthly paradise he debunks. The less these quacks are able to advance plausible objections to an economist's argument, the more furiously do they insult them.
~ Ludwig von Mises
You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
~ Unknown