Enmity Quotes - Page 2

Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.

For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.

Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification.

Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.

Undue enmity with enemies does not serve the interests of the system. Enemies must be dealt with wisely and prudently.

I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope.

War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.

The good are like one another, and friends to one another; and ... the bad, as is often said of them, are never at unity with one another or with themselves, but are passionate and restless: and that which is at variance and enmity with itself is not likely to be in union or harmony with any other thing.

We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.

What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.

O ye that dwell on earth! The religion of God is for love and unity; make it not the cause of enmity or dissension.

We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love

Because of their enmity you will be left alone. They will cast you out and forsake you.

The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended.

I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity Nor had I time to love: but since Some industry must be, The little toil of love, I thought, Was large enough for me.

It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.

Where there is a wine-shop, there are the elements of disease and the frightful source of all that is at enmity with the interests of the workmen.

There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength.

Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.

It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.

In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business.

People who expect enmity to suddenly convert into love are probably using the wrong model.

Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.

There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.

At every step there is a pretext for enmity against our brother.