Quotes About Enmity

He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.

The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.

There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend.

ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.

...nothing cements a friendship like hating the same person.

You know how many friends become enemies and how many enemies become friends -- it's just changing all the time. So many people presume you are something, then they meet you and become proper friends, and the ones who really knew you can't stand it, for whatever reason.

I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't.... The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.

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.

Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy

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

May your horse kick stones in your enemy's teeth,

A good man can never be the enemy of someone; if he did, he ain't a good man!

Art is beyond the enmity! That's why you can always love the art of your enemy, even though you hate him!

I began to find it more important to forgive my enemy on the day I found out that I am my enemy.

The almost universal nature of within-group amity and between-group enmity, wherein the rule-of-thumb heuristic is to trust in-group members until they prove otherwise to be distrustful, and to distrust out-group members until they prove otherwise to be trustful.

The almost universal desire of people to trade with one another, not for the selfless benefit of others or the society, but for the selfish benefit of one's own kin and kind; it is an unintended consequence that trade establishes trust between strangers and lowers between-group enmity, as well as produces greater wealth for both trading partners and groups.

I took a strong dislike to him right then to save time and effort later.

The main wish of the introvert is to avoid friends as well as enemies.

The enemy of my friend is my enemy and the friend of my enemy is my enemy.

Christ loved me enough to die for me while I was yet His enemy. If God had waited for me to learn to love Him before He died, I would never have been saved. I knew that with my head, but when I met someone who behaved in such a completely Christlike way, I was amazed. - Helen Roseveare

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.