Famous Enemies Quotes



If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache do be my enemy--for friendship's sake.

William Blake

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Voltaire

May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

Voltaire

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Albert Einstein

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Voltaire

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

Hesiod

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Thomas Jefferson

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Aristophanes

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Jean de La Fontaine

The best is the enemy of the good.

Voltaire

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

Wendell Phillips

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Walt Whitman

That is the thankless position of the father in the family — the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

August Strindberg

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

Kurt Cobain

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

William Shakespeare

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