Enemy Quotes

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

In almost all cases now the police are as much an enemy as the others.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

It's very different doing a food show in America and doing one in Britain. I did a 20-part series for the BBC series called 'Eating With the Enemy.' The budget for all 20 episodes was probably the budget for a single episode of 'Top Chef.' It's the difference between making a home movie in your backyard and going to Hollywood.

If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.

What good is a friend if you can't make an enemy of him?

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

We must be certain that we all realize that our enemy is not an enemy that is located in one single place. There are terrorist cells all around the globe.

The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.

We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.

Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.

The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.

The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.

In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.