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Enmity Quotes

I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.

John Hancock's Boston Massacre Oration, law2.umkc.edu. March 5, 1774.

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.350, Harvard University Press

Opposition is not necessarily enmity.

Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.41, Courier Dover Publications

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

Samuel Johnson (1968). “Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.20, Yale University Press

Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (1715). “M. Tully Cicero's five books of Tusculan disputations, done into Engl. by a gentleman of Christ Church college, Oxford”, p.152

I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world

Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.449, Barnes & Noble Publishing