Top 87 Friendship Enemy Quotes
#1. A common enemy is not necessarily a reliable basis for friendship.
Brandon Mull
#2. He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.
James Howell
#3. I would sooner lose my best friend than my worst enemy. To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.
Oscar Wilde
#4. He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Oscar Wilde
#5. Your worst and most dangerous enemy is the person that injures you under the pretensions of friendship.
Norm MacDonald
#6. On the positive side, a strong sense of comradely loyalty triggers genuine affection and friendship. On the negative side, it may strengthen contempt for the lives of opponents and, of course, the loss of a comrade may be followed by even greater brutality in battle.
Nel Noddings
#7. The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln
#8. Persecution happens when we stand in the face of our enemy. Friendship with the world is to conspire with that same enemy.
Brian Reynolds
#9. Never hate an enemy; love them and transform them into a friend.
Debasish Mridha
#10. You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.
Frank Moore Colby
#12. You cannot make friends of your enemies by making enemies of your friends.
Morton Blackwell
#13. They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.
Plato
#14. Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Abraham Lincoln
#15. What they had both thought was safety proved to have been the camouflage of an enemy who works in terms of friendship, trust and pity.
Graham Greene
#16. Syria has a strategic position in the region, I don't deny her role, her alliance with the resistance or our friendship with her although that many Lebanese pretended to have forgotten that there is an enemy called Israel which is still targeting us and constituting a danger to the Lebanese people.
Hassan Nasrallah
#17. It's more dangerous to have a friend then it is to have an enemy.
James Jean-Pierre
#18. If you claim to be a real friend then be real in your soul. If you claim to be fake then be an enemy instead.
Santosh Kalwar
#19. When we become acquainted with any person on a human level, even a great enemy, we begin to see that no person is really so different from ourselves.
Bryant McGill
#20. A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. Keep your friends close and your enemies dead.
Paul Dale
#22. If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
Elbert Hubbard
#24. 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
#25. While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow.
Henry David Thoreau
#26. When building a friendship bridge don't forget to construct a distruative path.
Peter Adejimi
#27. Sometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies
Lisa Vanderpump
#28. Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship.
C.J. Langenhoven
#29. Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.
Rumi
#30. Sometimes the silence of your friends is worse than your enemy's words.
Shannon L. Alder
#31. We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
Arthur Ashe
#32. Who knows you more ... your friend or your enemy? It's your enemy that pursues with passion while your friend engages at leisure.
Donna Lynn Hope
#33. It's the enemy of your enemy who is your friend Sophie, not the friend of your friend.
Somi Ekhasomhi
#34. An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde
#35. Everybody has same or the other weakness. This eis also a a general tendency to conceal theee weaknesses. For people may not harm for these, but they will surely ridicule or make fun of. Friendship, of course feigned should be retained with enemy till his weakness is known. Let him remain elated.
Chanakya
#36. O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me.
Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.
William Blake
#37. 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.
Mark Twain
#38. Never divulge secrets to acquaintances.
Never betray old friends for new ones.
Never mistake flattery for praise.
Never rely on dishonorable people.
Never trust your enemy's friends.
Never mistake someone's kindness for weakness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#39. The wounds inflicted by a friend are faithful, but an enemy's kisses are plentiful.
Stacey Culpepper
#40. The person who has never made an enemy will never make a friend.
Peter Tremayne
#41. He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#42. I'm in a squad where I'd rather shoot the C.O than the enemy.- Cooper Hawkes
Knock it off. -T,C. McQueen
You know what I'm saying, Sir. I mean I never felt like shooting you. -Cooper Hawkes
Stop it, Hawkes. You're making me all misty.-- T.C. McQueen
James Morrison
#44. Friend: A potential enemy with whom relations have not yet deteriorated to all-out war
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#45. A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
Aesop
#46. Because I had goodwill for all, I thought all were my friends, and then I learned of treachery, that some preferred my end. A glorious day, the one I learned the meaning of the word. It's good to know my enemies, though their reasons are absurd.
Vanna Bonta
#47. The only way we can change an enemy to a friend is by forgiveness.
Debasish Mridha
#48. Ignorance fears diversity as an invading enemy, while wisdom welcomes diversity in an alliance of friendship.
Wes Fesler
#50. 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
#51. If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then a friend of my enemy, is my enemy.
Pyreglide
#52. Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
Norman Maclean
#53. You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.
Benjamin Franklin
#54. When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."
Abraham Lincoln
#55. If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?
Aesop
#56. Watching other people making friends, everywhere, as a dog makes friends. I mark the manner of these canine courtesies and think, here comes, thank Heaven, another enemy!
Edmond Rostand
#57. Peace is something you only have when your enemy is gone. Either after you have turned him into a friend or vanquished him
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#58. If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why.
Joyce Rachelle
#60. I'd rather have an enemy who admits that they hate me, than a friend who secretly puts me down.
Karen Salmansohn
#62. It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Gautama Buddha
#63. A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor.
Lysander Spooner
#64. The most powerful force that can transform an enemy into a friend is simple kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#65. The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God.
Charles Spurgeon
#66. An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth,
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#68. Your friendship is quite valuable to me because I know you are not on my side.
Rather you are a free, evolving spirit, allied with other like minds.
Enemy to arrogance and loyal to the bitter truth.
Anonymous
#69. If you want to keep a secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
Benjamin Franklin
#70. To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.
Henry David Thoreau
#71. President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"
Abraham Lincoln
#72. Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you.
Hesiod
#73. An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.
Mark Twain
#74. It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.
Mahatma Gandhi
#75. The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.
Frank Delaney
#76. Friendship's enemy is betrayal.
Toba Beta
#77. All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way-if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.
John Knowles
#81. Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.
William Blake
#82. A stupid friend can hurt you more than a smart enemy.
Erol Ozan
#83. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, in the enjoyment of one's self, and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison
#84. The enemy of my enemy is also my enemy. A dark lord has no friends.
Paul Dale
#85. Today's enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today's friends can be tomorrow's enemies.
Suzy Kassem
#86. Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King's Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy."
"How odd. I think quite the same of you.
George R R Martin
