Quotes about enemies

Fas est et ab hoste doceri.

Your own actions are a better mirror of your life than the actions of all your enemies put together.

A thousand friends have less weight than a single enemy.

I learned a long time ago that it’s a bad habit to waste effort counting your friends. It’s your enemies you need to look out for.

Never make unsupportable assumptions about your enemies, Martin. It can be a fatal self-indulgence.

An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.

To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.

It was astonishing how quickly friendship could turn to enmity, she thought, like a compass needle swinging from one pole to the other.

They’d been excellent friends. They’d make excellent enemies as well.

Which is more dangerous—the dagger brandished by an enemy, or the hidden one pressed into your back by the enemy you never see>

A wise man never makes an enemy of a king.

The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.

I'm terrified of my enemies, so I kill them all.