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Quotes about Enemy


I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

What, man! defy the Devil: consider, he is an enemy to mankind.

William Shakespeare

A thing devised by the enemy.

William Shakespeare

Mine enemy's dog,
Though he had bit me, should have stood that night
Against my fire.

William Shakespeare

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!

William Shakespeare

My nearest
And dearest enemy.

Thomas Middleton

For those that run away and fly,
Take place at least o' the enemy.

Samuel Butler

A weak invention of the enemy.

Colley Cibber

You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

Benjamin Franklin

You 're our enemy; lead the way, and we 'll precede.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Once have a priest for enemy, good bye
To peace.

Sarah Flower Adams

Love your enemy, bless your haters, said the Greatest of the great;
Christian love among the Churches looked the twin of heathen hate.

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson

Say not the struggle naught availeth,
The labor and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not nor faileth,
And as things have been they remain.

Arthur Hugh Clough

The world is large when weary leagues two loving hearts divide
But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side.

John Boyle O'Reill

We have met the enemy, and they are ours.

Miscellaneous

They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy.

Miscellaneous

Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.

Hesiod

No tears are shed when an enemy dies.

Publius Syrus

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publius Syrus

The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more than ours," replied, "For how many then wilt thou reckon me?"

Plutarch

King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are."

Plutarch

Believe me, a thousand friends suffice thee not;
In a single enemy thou hast more than enough.

Ali Ben Abi Taleb

Apoplexie and lethargie,
As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

The charging of his enemy was but the work of a moment.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Ye have heard that it have been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.

New Testament

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