Enemy Quotes
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That was the truly horrifying thing about it: the sense of time as an enemy, to be fought tooth and nail--but there was so much of it; you killed an hour, but what good did that do when there were thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions more hours just waiting to take its place?
Tom Holt
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You’d make an enemy out of me over a human?” The word “human” might as well have been “rodent.
Nalini Singh
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Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!
J. R. R. Tolkien
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There comes a time to everyone when the world narrows for him to a strait alley, with Death at the end of it, and all his thoughts are fixed on that waiting enemy of mankind.
John Buchan
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In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.
Francis Bacon
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What the enemy believed of you was probably true, or else why were you enemies in the first place?
Clive Barker
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The greatest enemy of progress is the illusion of knowledge.
John Young
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You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only escapes by transformation.
George Eliot
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You're comin' with me, you gotta be invisible. You walk by a hatch and you see the enemy, you become the hatch.
J. F. Lawton
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The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.
William Shenstone
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No war is over until the enemy says it's over.
James Mattis
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The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.
Uell Stanley Andersen