726 Quotes About Enemies

They're working towards stopping you instead of advancing themselves. What a wasted energy on their part.

But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.

Great. Now Renata would have even more reason to dislike her. Jane would have an enemy. The last time she had had anything close to an enemy, she was in primary school herself. It had never crossed her mind that sending your child to school would be like going back to school yourself.

Our denial of our weakness is as profitable to our opponents as our unawareness of our strength.

Not answering him at all, Sarason demanded that, in order to bring and hold all elements in the country together by that useful Patriotism which always appears upon threat of an outside attack, the government immediately arrange to be insulted and menaced in a well-planned series of deplorable "incidents" on the Mexican border, and declare war on Mexico as soon as America showed that it was getting hot and patriotic enough.

An angry enemy is a conquered enemy

Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

One misstep was all it took, and it all came crashing down. And they were right there waiting for it—eager and ready to bury me in the wreckage.

Don't make such decisions whose bad results make you look like you are your own enemy.