Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
Tacitus

I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.
Black Kettle

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.
Paul Newman

Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
Frank Herbert

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Paul Valery

I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.
Jurgen Habermas

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.
Mario Puzo

From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts.
Hideki Tojo

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
Arthur Miller

I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.
Maria Callas

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.
Maria Callas

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
Andre Gide

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
Audre Lorde

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
Washington Irving

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.
Lord Chesterfield

Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.
Sophocles

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
Sophocles

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?
Sophocles

But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
Sophocles