Enemy Quotes - Page 8

• There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy.

  Andre Norton

  Overcoming, Speech, Weapons

  Andre Norton (2004). “Gods and Androids”, p.336, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

  Stephen King

  Love, Friendship, Fake People

  "The Gunslinger". Book by Stephen King, 1982.

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• The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.

  Walter Winchell

  Best Friend, Forgiving, Way

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• The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

  John F. Kennedy

  Trust, Peace, Fear

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.471, Best Books on

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• You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.

  Aesop

  Hate, Despise, Bald Man

  Aesop, Grimm, Andersen (1909). “Folk-Lore and Fable”

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• He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Friendship, Sarcastic

  "The Works of Oscar Wilde".

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• It is good to be taught even by an enemy

  Ovid

  Taught

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• War is the enemy of all mankind.

  Edwin Starr

  War, Politics, Mankind

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• The enemies inside us: Indifference, Indecision, Doubt, Worry, and Over-caution.

  Jim Rohn

  Worry, Doubt, Indifference

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• The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Heart, Two, League

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1913). “Selected Poems”

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• Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons

  George Bernard Shaw

  Order, Law, Hypocrisy

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.1383, e-artnow

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• I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

  Louise Mensch

  Ambition, Worst Enemy, Wish

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• It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Wish, Desire

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Life, God

  Letter to M. Damilaville, 16 May 1767

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• The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

  Orson Welles

  Inspirational, Funny, Birthday

  Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich (1992). “This is Orson Welles”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

  Gautama Buddha

  Motivational, Positive, Inspiring

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• From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

  Jones Very

  Wrestling, Soul, Depth

  Jones Very (1839). “Essays and Poems”, p.86

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• The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Heart, Doors, Overcoming

  Thomas a Kempis (2013). “The Imitation of Christ; Or, the Ecclesiastical Music”, p.25, Cambridge University Press

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• One must be a somebody before they can have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Force

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• It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is

  Plutarch

  Important

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• There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is enormously powerful. It saved my life, and it will save yours.

  Steven Pressfield

  Powerful, Intelligent, Steps

  Steven Pressfield (2014). “Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way”, p.50, Black Irish Books

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• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

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• All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Believe

  The Art of War (6th century b.c.).

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• Smiting enemies has always been so admired that, unlike medicine or archaeology, it entitled its successful practitioners to become kings, emperors, and presidents.

  Barbara Holland

  Kings, Successful, Medicine

  Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

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• If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  Elbert Hubbard (1929). “Advertising and Advertisements”

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