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Quotes About Enmity

She thought that she rather liked Lady Eustace. But then Lady Fawn hated Lady Linlithgow as only two old women can hate each other; — and she had not heard the story of the diamond necklace
~ Anthony Trollope
But now there is perpetual enmity between the Lacedaemonians and all their neighbours, the Argives, the Messenians, and the Arcadians. Their slaves also first revolted from the Thessalians while they were engaged in wars with their neighbours the Acheans, the Perrabeans, and the Magnesians.
~ Aristotle
the evil is the house itself, I think. It has enchained and destroyed its people and their lives, it is a place of contained ill will.
~ Shirley Jackson
Shall not I Learn place and wisdom? Have I not learned this, Only so much to hate my enemy, As though he might again become my friend, And so much good to wish to do my friend, As knowing he may yet become my foe?
~ Sophocles
I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes
~ Sophocles
Neither any one in this world is born as our friend nor born as our enemy.Our behavior, attitude & approach makes them become either one.
~ Moses Tiko Lungu
Dintre toÈ›i semenii noÈ™tri, cel mai mult le sem?n?m duÈ™manilor noÈ™tri. Nu degeaba le purt?m atâta interes - È™i ei nou?.
~ Emil Cioran
Children turn, and must turn, against their parents, and the parents can do nothing about it, for they are subject to a law which decrees the relations among all the living: i.e., that each engenders his own enemy.
~ Emil M. Cioran
There is a Jewish joke concerning the man who says of an enemy: Why does he hate me so? I never did him any good.
~ Barbara Vine
At least you'll be alive to hate me.
~ Barry Lyga
The French are never happy coming to London; this is an ancient and comforting enmity.
~ A. A. Gill
They hated Sammy Hagar for 12 years and they hate him to this day.
~ Gary Cherone
Hatred is inveterate anger.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
~ George Orwell
There ain't nothing worse than getting fired by somebody you hate, because it means they
~ Sarah Monette
There is no evidence that time heals all wounds, or even most wounds; instead, it freezes unnecessary enmity and makes it harder to overcome. (...) As Bertolt Brecht said, "As crimes pile up, they become invisible." And so I don't believe in an ideology of non-response.
~ Sarah Schulman
Back in February 1915, when the plan had first been scuttled, Lawrence had bitterly suggested to his family that France was the true enemy in Syria. In the wake of the second scuttling in November 1915 was born an enmity that would cause him to view all future French actions in the region with utter distrust.
~ Scott Anderson
I took a strong dislike to him right then to save time and effort later.
~ Mike Carey
My experience of men had long ago taught me that one of the surest ways of begetting an enemy was to do some stranger an act of kindness which should lay upon him the irritating sense of an obligation.
~ Mark Twain
The mother was your friend, you see, but the woman was your enemy, and love between the sexes is strife. Do not think that I gave myself; I did not give, but I took—what I wanted.
~ August Strindberg
There were as many reasons to accuse someone of witchcraft in 1692 as there were to denounce him under the Nazi occupation of France; envy, insecurity, political enmity, unrequited love, love that had run its course.
~ Stacy Schiff
If you dreamed to have a tranquil life then do not bother either exasperate or infuriate other's life. Dreaming a tranquil life is good but you cannot surmount it if you have a lot of foes indeed.
~ Albert Subrado
Stormpaw won't," Goosekit growled. "He's going to try to kill me.
~ Erin Hunter
You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am Yours, B. Franklin
~ Benjamin Franklin