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Quotes About Enmity

He who does not like you will defame you in jest.
~ Richard Schickel
So. Monday. We meet again.We will never be friends—but maybe we can move past our mutual enmity toward a more-positive partnership.
~ Julio Alexi Genao
Odiar a alguien es como beberte un vaso de veneno creyendo que así vas a matar a quien odias.
~ Javier Cercas
Cromer-Blake has always introduced Dayanand, the Indian doctor, as a great friend which, of course, equips him -- indeed is the ideal qualification -- to become the most bitter of enemies.
~ Javier Marías
You have to know someone to want to kill him.
~ E.L. Doctorow
sentimentalists have words: love, loyalty, friendship, enmity, jealousy, hate, a thousand others; a waste of words – one word defines them all: self-interest.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
La enemistad perdura. La amistad es menos segura. Sobre todo en esos tiempos.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
Pride of friend or enemy did not need any words.
~ Alexander Kent
I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.
~ Earl Weaver
The next time American pilots bailed out into the hands of Communist troops was in Korea about five years later, and the reception this time was imprisonment and torture, which makes the level of wartime cooperation all the more amazing and the decline of the relationship into enmity all the more shocking and costly.
~ Richard Bernstein
They are in contact on a high-voltage wavelength of hate...
~ Ken Kesey
Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.
~ Edmund Burke
Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world
~ William Shakespeare
The day will come that thou shalt wish for meTo help thee curse this pois'nous bunch-back'd toad.
~ William Shakespeare
A plague o' both your houses
~ William Shakespeare
My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.
~ William Shakespeare
He hates me and I hate him, but I hate him more, more and more-
~ David Peace
If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then a friend of my enemy, is my enemy.
~ Pyreglide
An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.
~ Saadi
Oh, how he hated that werewolf. Despised him. Loathed him. Abhorred him. He could take every synonym in the thesaurus, plus all of their foreign language equivalents, including dead languages that only a couple of scholars in the world still knew how to translate, and it wouldn't come close to expressing just how deeply he hated that man-beast.
~ Jeff Strand
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
~ Ali ibn-Abi-Talib
A fool friend always does something that the enemy wishes.
~ Alireza Salehi Nejad
For instance, it is quite clear now that all of the peoples of the earth have not always wished one another well. Indeed we are certain now, are we not, that so many people have wished us ill. They wish us ill. They have always done. They still do.
~ Ama Ata Aidoo