“So tell my enemies that they can’t injure me, I know that irritates, you have my sympathies.”
Lupe Fiasco (1982) rapper
Albums, Lasers (2011)
Source: Darkfever
“So tell my enemies that they can’t injure me, I know that irritates, you have my sympathies.”
Lupe Fiasco (1982) rapper
Albums, Lasers (2011)
“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;
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet
I am not one of those who left the land..." (1922), translated in Poems of Akhmatova (1973) by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward
Miguel Pro (1891–1927) Mexican Jesuit priest and martyr
Source: Blessed Miguel Pro Juarez https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/blessed-miguel-pro-juarez-397 (November 23, 1927)
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)
Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859–1941) German Emperor and King of Prussia
Speech (23 November 1891), quoted in Michael Balfour, The Kaiser and His Times (London: Penguin, 1975), p. 158
1890s
“I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.”
Philip Larkin (1922–1985) English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian
“My friends, judge me by the enemies I have made.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
Speech made on the campaign trail in Portland, Oregon (21 September 1932)
1930s