Quotes About Enmity

All you need to know is that I have an old enemy pretending to be me. (Acheron) Why? (Talon) Well, it obviously isn't to be nice to me and win over my friends, now is it? (Acheron)

Men can beat each other to a pulp and still walk away friends. With a woman, once an enemy, always an enemy. Women will sit like a spider, for years, waiting for the chance to strike. They never forget and seldom forgive.

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.

All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way—if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.

You know — or perhaps you do not know — that there are two women whom I have hated all my life long — Lady Byron and Marie Louise.

Los españoles seguimos siendo los primeros enemigos de nosotros mismos. Empeñados en apagar las luces allí donde las vemos brillar.

I'd hate their guts if they had any.

We held certain truths to be self-evident, but those truths were that elves hate orcs and wizards can't wear metal armor.

I don't have pet peeves - I have major psychotic fucking hatreds.

I don't mean your resentment toward them, said Philip... I mean your extending the enmity to a helpless girl, who has too much sense and goodness to share their narrow prejudices. She has never entered into the family quarrels. What does that signify? We don't ask what a woman does; we ask whom she belongs to. It's altogether a degrading thing to you, to think of marrying old Tulliver's daughter.

We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time that Cain slew Abel, so much of hatred.

One wonders what exactly Israel did to earn Arab enmity between 1948 and 1967, when Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip and Jordan controlled Judea and Samaria.

narcissist hates you wholeheartedly and thoroughly simply because you are.

He was a very good hater.

There can be no true friends without true enemies. Unless we hate what we are not, we cannot love what we are.

Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.

That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .

Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species

de fraternidad enemiga, de vecindad áspera (como la del olor de los limones y de la carroña humana en Jaffa), lo que hechiza a Flaubert.

They say, Write what you know. What do you know? Love, anger, despair, enmity, fear, empathy, lust, worry, trust & more. You know life.

In other words, nearly all the inhabitants of these outwardly disconnected empires turn out at last to be tenaciously inter-related; love and hate, friendship and enmity, too, becoming themselves much less clearly defined, more often than not showing signs of possessing characteristics that could claim, to say the least, not a little in common; while work and play merge indistinguishably into a complex tissue of pleasure and tedium.

It is not so in the United States. There the same political enmity exists, but the political enmity produces private hatred. The leaders of parties there really mean what they say when they abuse each other, and are in earnest when they talk as though they were about to tear each other limb from limb. I doubt whether Mr. Daubeny would have injured a hair of Mr. Mildmay's venerable head, even for an assurance of six continued months in office.

It is not so in the United States. There the same political enmity exists, but the political enmity produces private hatred.