Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual grows rapidly and luxuriantly. Name anything bad in man and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with particular liveliness and abundance.
It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.
You are at enmity with yourself.
Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.
I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope.
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.
To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.
The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God.
We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love
War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.
If America puts the enmity aside, if it initiates good will, and if it compensates for the past, the future situation between the United States and Iran will change.
Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character of all life and being.
There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.
Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.
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.
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.
Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.
The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.
Twenty-one years ago, when I first heard Mia Farrow had accused me of child molestation, I found the idea so ludicrous I didn't give it a second thought. We were involved in a terribly acrimonious breakup, with great enmity between us and a custody battle slowly gathering energy. The self-serving transparency of her malevolence seemed so obvious I didn't even hire a lawyer to defend myself. It was my show business attorney who told me she was bringing the accusation to the police and I would need a criminal lawyer.
I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.