quotations about enemies
Mortal enemies are like beautiful kitchens: Some households have them, and when they belong to famous people, we're immediately more interested in them. Which makes public feuds between mortal enemies akin to fancy custom appliances and gleaming copper pots as far as the eye can see.
ALEX ABAD-SANTOS
"Kanye West and Taylor Swift's latest fight explained", Vox, February 12, 2016
A man with no enemies is a man with no character.
PAUL NEWMAN
Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures
I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.
ALAN BRADLEY
The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag
Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Aphorisms on Love and Hate
Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.
PLATO
Lysis
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.
HOWARD TAYLOR
The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
Beware of meat twice boil'd, and an old foe reconcil'd.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1733