Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
—Oscar Wilde
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
—G. K. Chesterton
Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.
—Spike Milligan
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
—Baltasar Gracián
Even for our enemies in misery, there should be tears in our eyes.
—Charan Singh
Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.
—Lady Mary Worley Montagu
I have two enemies in all the world, / Two twins, inseparably pooled: / The hunger of the hungry and the fullness of the full.
—Marina Tsvetaeva
After every "victory" you have more enemies.
—Jeanette Winterson
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
—Mahatma Gandhi
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Enemies are the people who think about you more than your friends do.
—Donna Lynn Hope
Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
—G. K. Chesterton
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
—W. L. George
The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
—Aesop