“I love my enemies, but am hell on my friends.”
Ammon Hennacy (1893–1970) American Christian radical
[The Book of Ammon, 1970, Hennacy, 205]
Je meurs en adorant Dieu, en aimant mes amis, en ne haïssant pas mes ennemis et en détestant la superstition.
Déclaration de Voltaire, note to his secretary, Jean-Louis Wagnière (28 February 1778)
Citas
“I love my enemies, but am hell on my friends.”
Ammon Hennacy (1893–1970) American Christian radical
[The Book of Ammon, 1970, Hennacy, 205]
“I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!”
Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) English novelist and poet
In response to George Henry Lewes (LL, II, v, 272); Miriam Farris Allott (1974), The Brontës, the critical heritage, page 160;
Warren G. Harding (1865–1923) American politician, 29th president of the United States (in office from 1921 to 1923)
Remark to editor William Alan White, as quoted in Thomas Harry Williams et al. (1959) A History of the United States.
1920s
“If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.”
Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Mike Tyson (1966) American boxer
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml;jsessionid=CEDUJVE3P05PLQFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/sport/2002/05/01/sotys02.xml&page=2
On himself
Juliana Hatfield (1967) American guitarist/singer-songwriter and author
"My Enemy"
In Exile Deo (2004)
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend, so that makes Google my best friend.”
Marc Benioff (1964) American businessman
Quoted in Miguel Helft, " Google and Salesforce Join to Fight Microsoft http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/technology/14google.html?_r=1&oref=slogin", New York Times (April 14, 2008).
Juan Antonio Villacañas (1922–2001) Spanish poet, essayist and critic
“Revolt of a Newborn”, from Revolt of a Newborn (1973)