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.
Wellington Duke of 1769-1852
(attributed, on reviewing his troops)
I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.
Wilde Oscar 1854-1900
(of Bernard Shaw)
He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him.
Yeats William Butler 1865-1939
„In Memory of Eva Gore Booth and Con Markiewicz"
The innocent and the beautiful
Have no enemy but time.