Enemy Quotes

• We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason.

  

  Philip Kearny
  • Up
  • Enemy

• If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.

  

  Sun Tzu
  • Believe
  • Far
  • Near

• Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Intelligence
  • Adversaries
  • Duels

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

  

  John Boyle O'Reilly
  • World
  • Small
  • Enemy

• Idleness is the enemy of the soul.

  

  Anselm of Canterbury
  • Soul
  • Enemy
  • Idleness

• The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood.

  

  Mark Helprin
  • Enemy

• The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

  

  Frans de Waal
  • True
  • Science
  • Reflection

• His [Pitt's] successor as prime minister was Mr. Addington, who was a friend of Mr. Pitt, just as Mr. Pitt was a friend of Mr. Addington; but their respective friends were each other's enemies. Mr. Fox, who was Mr. Pitt's enemy (although many of his friends were Mr. Pitt's friends), had always stood uncompromisingly for peace with France and held dangerously liberal opinions; nevertheless, in 1804, Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt got together to overthrow Mr. Pitt's friend Mr. Addington, who was pushing the war effort with insufficient vigor.

  

  J. Christopher Herold
  • War
  • Together
  • Opinion

• I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

  

  Douglas MacArthur
  • Enemy

• Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you want to burn your passport and beg the Luftwaffe to have another go.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • Friends
  • Trust
  • Looks

• Sixteen years after 9/11, we still don't even know what to call the enemy, rather than form a comprehensive strategy.

  

  Ali Soufan
  • Enemy
  • Strategy

• A weak invention of the enemy.

  

  Colley Cibber
  • Enemy

• There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war. There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • People
  • War
  • Road

• To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Knowledge
  • Friend
  • Forget

• The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Man
  • Progress
  • Door

• But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.

  

  Danielle Trussoni
  • Important
  • Enemy
  • Treacherous

• Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.

  

  Janelle Monae
  • Great
  • Music
  • Wonder

• We the Chinese nation have the spirit to fight the enemy to the last drop of our blood, the determination to recover our lost territory by our own efforts, and the ability to stand on our own feet in the family of nations.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Family
  • Lost
  • Chinese

• Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

  

  Saadi
  • May
  • Friend
  • Secret

• The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• I've got all of my enemies here in the Cabinet where I can keep an eye on them.

  

  John G. Diefenbaker
  • Political
  • Eye
  • Politics

• Yes, I know that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.

  

  Knute Rockne
  • Strong
  • Enemy
  • Fool

• There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.

  

  Emmeline Pankhurst
  • Life
  • Enemy

• Arch Enemy is a female-fronted metal band, but so is Delain. They don't sound alike at all. The only thing they both are are metal bands, but the style within metal is so massively different that it doesn't really say much whether there's a girl singing or not. So it's really not so important.

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
  • Important
  • Band
  • Singing

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