Enemy Making Quotes

If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

A bullet can kill the enemy, but a bullet can also produce an enemy, depending on whom that bullet strikes.

I don't hate my enemies. After all, I made 'em.

A small loan makes a debt; a great one an enemy.

If a President doesn't make enemies, he just won't be a very good President, that's all.

[On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?

Let us first render ourselves popular by mighty deeds, and afterwards we will speak of peace and clemency. In the disputes of others let us always put ourselves on the side of the stronger. If we would become rich in men and cattle, we cannot help making enemies; but they will not roar for ever.

Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.

I learned early in life that you get places by having the right enemies.

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

Nemeses aren't born. They are made.

The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours.

Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this story, thought Orpheus. And the wrong friends. But that was high-minded heroes for you. Stupid.

Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.

There are four things every person has more of than they know: sins, debt, years, and enemies.

It's not a very good idea to make an enemy of anyone who buys ink by the barrel.

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

This is not the time to make enemies.

There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.

Sometimes Congressmen go to great lengths to avoid having a vote on something. If they vote either way they’re going to make enemies.