Enemy quotes

Bacon Francis 1561-1626

Essays „Of Death"

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death. And therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

Baldwin Stanley 1867-1947

I think it is well also for the man in the street to realize that there is no power on earth that can protect him from being bombed. Whatever people may tell him, the bomber will always get through. The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves.

The Bible (Authorized Version)

New Testament: I Corinthians ch. 15 v. 26

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

Colton Charles Caleb c. 1780-1832

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Connolly Cyril 1903-1974

Enemies of Promise

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

Conrad Joseph 1857-1924

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

Euripides c. 485-406 BC

There's nothing like the sight of on old enemy down on his luck.

Hoffer Eric 1902-1983

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Kelly Walt 1913-1973

We have met the enemy, and he is us.

Miller Henry 1891-1980

Tropic of Cancer

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy ti the human race.

Milligan Spike

Puckoon
Money couldn't buy friends but you got a better class of enemy.

Nelson Horatio Lord 1758-1805

In case signals can neither be seen nor perfectly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside the enemy.

Nelson Horatio Lord 1758-1805

You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king: and ... you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.

Newman John Henry, Cardinal 1801-1890

We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

Orton William A.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as if it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Plutarch AD c. 46-c. 120

Parallel Lives „Lysander"

He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God.

Proverbs and Sayings

Arab

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Proverbs and Sayings

English

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.

Saadi c. 1184-c. 1292

Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy.

Swift Jonathan 1667-1745

On the Death of Dr Swift

Some great misfortune to portend,
No enemy can match a friend.

Twain Mark 1835-1910

Following the Equator

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

Tzu-Sun

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

Voltaire 1694-1778

Candide

The best is the enemy of the good.

Washington George 1732-1799

General Orders

The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.