Quotes about enemy
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“The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.”

Source: Micah

“Are we prepared to make an enemy out of the Kingdom? The question is, are you bastards prepared to make an enemy out of Fairy Tail?”

Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist

Question

“I'm not making an enemy; I'm keepin' one.”

Stephen King book Dolores Claiborne

Source: Dolores Claiborne

“Time is the enemy of identity”

Michael Moorcock (1939) English writer, editor, critic

Time

“Just because you’re rivals doesn’t mean you have to be enemies.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips book Nobody's Baby But Mine

Nobody's Baby But Mine

Motivational

“Disagreement is part of being a person who has choices. One of those choices is to respect others and engage in intelligent conversation about differences of opinion without becoming enemies, eventually allowing us to move forward to compromise.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

Source: One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

Intelligence, Parting, Personality

“Lies," Mr Solomon said the next morning as he walked into the classroom. "We tell them to our friends," he said. "We tell them to our enemies. And eventually… we tell them to ourselves.”

Ally Carter Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

“You're the enemy. I don't want to sympathize with you. So… So don't… Don't cry like that in front of me! Damn it…”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

Source: Naruto, Band 11

Cry

“One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.”

Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic

Statement of 1848, as quoted in The Cynic's Lexicon : A Dictionary of Amoral Advice (1984) by Jonathon Green, p. 91
One must forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.
As quoted in A Mania for Sentences (1985) by Dennis Joseph Enright, p. 10
Variant: We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

Forgiveness

“Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.”

Diana Gabaldon book A Breath of Snow and Ashes

Source: A Breath of Snow and Ashes

“… she studied his clothes, his top hat. “And you’ve just come from Parliament? How are you finding that?”

“It’s much like piracy. You tell your enemies that if they don’t fall in line, you’ll leave them to die.”

Meljean Brook (1977)

Source: The Iron Duke

Study, Clothes

“I’d be glad of a retaliation that wouldn’t recoil on myself; but treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Isabella Linton (Ch. XVII).
Source: Wuthering Heights (1847)

“It had been so good to see his enemy again. Positively heartwarming.

Hallmark really needed to start up a line of revenge cards, the kind that let you reach out to those you were going to come after with a vengeance.

- Lash”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Enshrined

Revenge

“Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Men, Heart

“The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

Men, War, Home, Fight

“Let my enemies devour each other”

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist

“It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

Source: After the Quake

Feeling

“I am your dwarf.
I am the enemy within.
I am the boss of your dreams.
See. Your hand shakes.
It is not palsy or booze.
It is your Doppelganger
trying to get out.
Beware… Beware…”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

Dreams

“Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy…. Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

World

“Men have committed the greatest crime against women. Insidiously, violently, they have led them to hate women, to be their own enemies, to mobilize their immense strength against themselves, to be the executants of their virile needs.”

Hélène Cixous (1937) French philosopher and writer

Source: The Laugh of the Medusa

Women, Men, Hate

“There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

Women, Men

“Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.”

Anthony Horowitz book Point Blanc

Source: Point Blank

“Hate Scars. I'm physically flawless-why can't everyone be? Everywhere Lothaire went, people stopped and stared. Of course, then they usually ran. Lothair Enemy of Old”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

Hate, People

“Release the demon under promise that I'd be repaid handsomely, my enemies destroyed? Hmm, where had I seen this before? Oh, right. Every demon horror movie ever made. And the horror part started right after the releasing part.”

Kelley Armstrong The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

Parting

“I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

The Garden of Forking Paths (1942), The Garden of Forking Paths

Men, Water, Country

“The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women’s intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn’t realize it.” I waited in silence”

Elena Ferrante (1943) Italian writer

Source: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

Women, Children, Home, Intelligence

“He can occasionally see to an enemy," she conceded. "If he manages to get his sword pointed in the right direction and the enemy does him the favor of falling upon it in precisely the right way.”

Lynn Kurland (2000) American writer

Source: Star of the Morning

Way

“A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.”

Robert Jordan Lord of Chaos

Source: Lord of Chaos

Death

“The moment we decide to throw more energy into fighting for our mate than with him, the crack of a fist on the enemy's jaw splits the ears of angels.”

Beth Moore (1957) American evangelist

Angels, Fight

“Glance is the enemy of vision.”

Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic

“We're taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don't have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool let's somebody tell them who the enemy is.”

Assata Shakur (1947) American activist who was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army

Source: Assata: In Her Own Words, p. 152
Source: Assata: An Autobiography

Age, Fools, Communication, Idea

“Don’t worry about it. We’re used to being told to go screw ourselves. And that’s from the people who actually like us. You should hear what our enemies say. (Nykyrian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of the Night

People

“The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer book The Cost of Discipleship

Source: Discipleship (1937), The Enemy, the "Extraordinary", p. 147.
Source: The Cost of Discipleship

Love, Men, God, Law

“Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?”

John Boyne (1971) Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction

Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

“Is Loor a man's name or a woman's name?" Aja, TRB.
It is the name of a female warrior." Loor, TRB.
What did she do that was so heroic?" Aja, TRB
She killed her enemies and ate them." Loor, TRB.”

D.J. MacHale (1955) American television director and producer

“The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, fathers beheading sons. They are a house which has to have blood, and they will shed their own if they have no other enemy.”

Philippa Gregory book The White Queen

Source: The White Queen

Housing

“Confusion to our enemies!”

Salman Rushdie book The Moor's Last Sigh

The Moor's Last Sigh

“I will feast on enemies of Ra until my belly is full!”
“Charming,” Sadie whispered.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

“For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies.”

Richard Adams book Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

Loss

“If you are not with me, you are against me. I have no mercy for my enemies.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

“You forgot another lesson: Never turn your back until you know your enemy
is dead. Looks like we’ll have to go over the lesson again the next time
I see you—which will be soon.
Love, D.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

Love, Time, Dead

“But you pashed Jonah Griggs and he's the leader of the enemy.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.”

Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

Freedom, Business

“If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

God

“Coyote never loses. Because I change the rules of the games my enemies play. What are the rules of your game?”

Patricia Briggs book Frost Burned

Source: Frost Burned

Game, Change

“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Hurt, Hurtful, Peaceful

“When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.”

Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet

Tree

“All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country… and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.”

Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic

Tree, Housing, Country

“They said it was better to know your enemy, but how did it help to know that your enemy’s one weakness was your weakness too”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Help

“Best way to find the weakness of the enemy is to understand their ways.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

Way, Understanding

“It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town… he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Source: Walden

“A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.”

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist

Personality

“Nico wasn't sure whether to kick himself or Will Solace. If he hadn’t been so distracted bickering with the son of Apollo, he would never have allowed the enemy to get so close.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

“A Prince asked the dying spanish statesman, "Does your Excellency forgive all your enemies?" "I do not have to forgive all my enemies," answered the stateman, "I have had them all shot.”

Robert Greene book The 48 Laws of Power

Source: The 48 Laws of Power

Forgiveness

“People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to unravel.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

People

“I don't believe in making war with food. Food is not the enemy.
Said by Claire in The 5th Horseman”

James Patterson (1947) American author

War, Food

“Fear is the enemy of hope.”

Dave Ramsey (1960) American financial advisor

Fear, Hope

“Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.”

George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist

Smile, Affliction

“The advantage to being a wicked bastard is that everyone pesters the Lord on your behalf; if volume of prayers from my saintly enemies means anything, I'll be saved when the Archbishop of Canterbury is damned. It's a comforting thought.”

George MacDonald Fraser Flashman at the Charge

Source: Flashman at the Charge

“If I learned anything Downtown, it's this: the only real difference between an enemy and a friend is the day of the week.”

Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer

Source: Sandman Slim

Learning

“no army has ever marched into battle thinking that the Creator had sided with their enemy.”

Terry Goodkind book Wizard's First Rule

Source: Wizard's First Rule

Thinking

“Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui—these are the true hero’s enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.”

David Foster Wallace book The Pale King

Source: The Pale King (2011)

“The true enemy of man is generalization.”

Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator

Source: Testimony to the Invisible: Essays on Swedenborg

“To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavor of our relationship. It was more like the two of us entered into a business partnership in order to more efficiently pursue our mutual interest of hating each other.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

Hate, Business, Partnership

“Let's sum up: an unknown number of enemies with unknown capabilities, supported by a gang of madmen, packs of attack animals, and superhumanly intelligent pocket change.”

Jim Butcher (1971) American author

Intelligence, Support, Change, Animals

“Do you even know who the enemy is?"
"I think… it's me".”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

Thinking

“I can be a good friend, or a bad enemy.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

“Nodding, Cery strode to the door and stepped through. Though the burly guards eyes him suspiciously, Cery smiled back. Never make enemies of someone's lackeys, his father had taught him. Better still, make them like you a lot.”

Trudi Canavan book The Magicians' Guild

Source: The Magicians' Guild

Smile

“It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Source: 1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 4, plate 91, line 1

Forgiveness, Friendship

“The enemy is always in the mind.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

“Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.”

Anne Rice The Witching Hour

Source: The Witching Hour (1990)

Books, Reading

“If it's to protect our family, be it the Kingdom or the entire world… We would make anyone our enemy! That's what it means to be Fairy Tail!!”

Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist

World, Family

“more enemies, more honour.”

Robert Harris book Archangel

Archangel

“Before you were my enemy, you were my best friend.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dark Skye

“What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled 'enemy?”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Men, Heart

“He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.”

Andy Stanley (1958) American Christian minister

Source: It Came from Within!: The Shocking Truth of What Lurks in the Heart

Feeling, Soul, Forgiveness, Decision

“Show no fear to your enemies. Only contempt. Never let anyone look down on you. You're just as good as any of them. I don't care who they are. Better in fact. In our world, Dagans are royalty and you, my son, are a prince.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of Shadows

World, Fear

“We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever,” she’d said once. “Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time
and place we choose. Not them.”

Okay, Tasha, I thought. Let’s see if your advice gets me killed.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

Time

“In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.”

Francis Bacon book Essays

Of Revenge
Essays (1625)
Variant: Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.

Revenge