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Quotes About Enmity

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
~ Oscar Wilde
The worst kinds of enemies are those who pretend to be your friends.
~ Unknown
I just killed my best friend...and my worst enemy." "What's the difference?
~ Christian Slater
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
~ Oscar Wilde
If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.
~ Thomas Hobbes
I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes
~ Sophocles, Philoctetes
And what is the connection between Us and Them, how many bundled links do we find in the neural labyrinth? It's not enough to hate your enemy. You have to understand how the two of you bring each other to deep completion.
~ Unknown
Esté preparado para la enemistad de las puertas del infierno. Póngase toda la armadura de Dios (Ef. 6). De la torre de David colgaban mil escudos (Cnt. 4:4), listos para el uso del pueblo de Dios. Las armas de nuestra guerra son espirituales y han sido usadas por millones de pobres pecadores como nosotros, y nunca han fallado.
~ J.C. Ryle
I felt better. Yes, I sensed it like the sweat of relief when nausea passes away; I felt better. We were even after all, even in enmity. The deadly rivalry was on both sides after all.
~ John Knowles
Nowadays there's no honor, only drama. Your friend today can be your enemy tomorrow.
~ Unknown
Era un experto consumado en lo tocante al dolor. Nada podía causar más dolor a Aquiles que aquello: el hombre más próximo a su corazón le traicionaba ante su peor enemigo.
~ Madeline Miller
O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.
~ John Milton
While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace, both joining, As joined in injuries, and enmity Against a foe by doom express assigned us, That cruel serpent.
~ John Milton
Dios proclama la paz, y ellos viven, no obstante, dominados por el odio y la enemistad y en perpetua lucha; se mueven crueles guerras y devastan la tierra para destruirse unos a otros, como si no tuvieran, y en esto deberían cifrar su unión, sobrados enemigos en el infierno que día y noche conspiran para su ruina.
~ John Milton
By nature, since the entrance of sin, no man has any communion with God. He is light, we darkness; and what communion has light with darkness? He is life, we are dead—he is love, and we are enmity; and what agreement can there be between us?
~ John Owen
no man can express a greater enmity unto or malice against the gospel, than he that should assert or maintain that the faith, profession, lives, ways, and walkings of the generality of Christians are a just representation of its truth and holiness.
~ John Owen
People are not naturally either friends or enemies: friendship and enmity arise from circumstances.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
Change is the only constant thing one can ever rely in their life. Enmity between being powerless over it and accepting it is ones biggest mistake. Trust in change. Don't be perturbed by your own unavailing decisions.
~ Unknown
Carthago delenda est. (Carthage must be destroyed.)
~ Unknown
To see your enemy and know him is part of the complete education of man.
~ Marcus Garvey
Carthage must be destroyed.
~ Marcus Porcius Cato
Hatred is inveterate anger.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
~ Unknown