Enemy As A Friend Quotes

#1. While a battle is raging one can see his enemy mowed down by the thousand, or the ten thousand, with great composure; but after the battle these scenes are distressing, and one is naturally disposed to do as much to alleviate the suffering of an enemy as a friend.

Ulysses S. Grant

#2. As my friend, I liked you," I whispered. "As my enemy, I craved you. As a fighter, I loved you, and as my wife" - I slid the ring the rest of the way on - "I keep you." I squeezed her hand. "Forever," I promised.

Penelope Douglas

#3. Death is either a friend who rocks us gently as a nurse, or an enemy who violently drags the soul from the body.

Alexandre Dumas

#4. Tobacco is the enemy, disguised as a friend, and if you are to win the war you must get to know your enemy.

Gudjon Bergmann

#5. If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won't find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. (99)

Swami Satchidananda

#6. I think James here has either just made a gorgeous friend or a sultry enemy," Zane said, watching the swoop and drape of Tabitha's robes as she turned the corner. "I can't say for sure which I am rooting for.

G. Norman Lippert

#7. If death is as horrible as is claimed, how is it that after the passage of a certain period of time we consider happy any being, friend or enemy, who has ceased to live?

Emil M. Cioran

#8. The most dangerous enemy is not the one who lingers behind you in the shadows, but the one who walks beside you as a friend.

Bianca Scardoni

#9. If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger.

Francis Quarles

#10. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same. Hatred has to be cultivated as a civic passion. The enemy is the friend of the people. You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery.

Umberto Eco

#11. If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.

Jim Sasser

#12. As for Celaena," he said again, "you do not have the right to wish she were not what she is. The only thing you have a right to do is decide whether you are her enemy or her friend.

Sarah J. Maas

#13. Never treat your fear as an enemy; it's a friend in disguise, only if we are able to recognize its worth.

Mayank S. Sengar

#14. The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe

Andrew Jackson

#15. An opportunist disguised as a friend can be every bit as dangerous as an outright enemy.

Ransom Riggs

#16. The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.

Natan Sharansky

#17. Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

Jean De La Fontaine

#18. Death is not the enemy of life, but its friend, for it is the knowledge that our years are limited which makes them so precious. It is the truth that time is but lent to us which makes us, at our best, look upon our years as a trust handed into our temporary keeping.

Joshua L. Liebman

#19. Remind me never to piss you off ... Are you as good at being a friend as you are an enemy?

Laurell K. Hamilton

#20. Loneliness is not the enemy of your joy
as long as you know how you should always destroy
the pensive mood that remains with you like a friend
who never stands up for you when you're forced to bend

Munia Khan

#21. A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or, 'He learnt the language of pigeons, and forgot his own.' Or, the favourite of Jan Fishan Khan: 'Nothing is what it seems.

Tahir Shah

#23. I can be a very valuable friend to you, but you do not want me as an enemy.

Matthew Quick

#24. Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
[Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami;
Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.]

Jean De La Fontaine

#25. Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.

Charles Caleb Colton

#26. It is easier for an ambitious friend to become an enemy than for an enemy to become a friend. It is even easier to make friends than you can find people to trust as friends.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#27. There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that will go to jail for me, or an enemy that will run me through the body!

Fanny Burney

#28. I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves.

Diego Rivera

#29. I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera's my worst enemy and my best friend. It's the way I convey my emotions to the world without saying a word, so I use it. People always say, 'You come alive as soon as the camera's on!'

Nicki Minaj

#30. I want you, Isis. Not as a friend. Not as an enemy. But as the most beautiful girl I've ever known.

Sara Wolf

#31. I'm a good friend, but I'm a hell of an enemy. As your enemy, I want your demise. When I feel that in my heart it burns till I die.

Mike Tyson

#32. Children get acquainted with each other in a special way, they do not make contracts as adults, they believe each other or not. Childish friendships often end in violence. You may become an enemy all of a sudden as well as notice that you are someone's best friend.

Henning Mankell

#33. Obstacles are not opposing you, but merely and gently re-routing you. It is important not to view that which stands in your way as your 'enemy.' It can often be your best friend, sending you on a detour that takes you around what would have been your biggest stumbling block.

Neale Donald Walsch

#34. So at twelve, I discovered that alcohol could dull pain and saw it as a friend. It was only in later years I realized that a friendship with a bottle can overnight turn into a relationship with the enemy.

Toni Maguire

#35. When you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.

Gregory David Roberts

#36. Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.

Mahatma Gandhi

#37. One imputation in particular has been repeated till it seems as if some at least believed it: that I am an enemy to commerce. They admit me a friend of agriculture, and suppose me an enemy to the only means of disposing of its produce.

Thomas Jefferson

#38. When my father was vigorous and lucid, (my mother) regarded medicine as her wily ally in a lifelong campaign to keep old age, sickness, and death at bay. Now ally and foe exchanged masks. Medicine looked more like the enemy, and death the friend. (p. 184)

Katy Butler

#39. I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions ... Let [the Papists] assure themselves, that, as I am a friend of their persons, if they be good subjects, so am I a vowed enemy, and do denounce mortal war to their errors.

King James I

#40. I was more of kind (who was better at) building businesses and selling them. That was a big thing for me. I was very good at that. I wasn't good as a boss. I was either your best friend or your worst enemy. I didn't balance the two very well. (So) I sold them.

Drew Waters

#41. You seem to look upon depression as the hand of an enemy trying to crush you ... Do you think you could see it instead as the hand of a friend, pressing you down to the ground on which it is safe to stand?

Parker J. Palmer

#42. America is harmless as an enemy but treacherous as a friend.

Bernard Lewis

#43. I took note of the Buddha's teaching that in one sense a supposed enemy is more valuable than a friend, for an enemy teaches you things, such as forbearance, that a friend generally does not.

Dalai Lama XIV

#44. The enemy of my enemy is my friend? That's bullshit. There are always more than two sides. Pretending it's only one or else the other is what let that sonofabitch carry so much weight in the OPA for as long as he did." "He

James S.A. Corey

#45. The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.

Robert Kennedy

#46. A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#47. A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

Francis Bacon

#48. No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.

William, Saroyan

#49. Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

George Bernard Shaw

#50. Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer ... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.

Hunter S. Thompson

#51. A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

Bryant McGill