Skip to main content

Worst Enemy Quotes

I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even the Little Sisters of Charity, could tolerate her for more than a few weeks, so the family has had to look after her. Believe me, there is nothing so insufferable as a saint, I wouldn't sic one on my worst enemy.
- Isabel Allende

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
- Frank Sinatra

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)
- Plato

you are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.
- Lisa Kleypas

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.
- Aristotle

But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?
- Friedrich Nietzsche

The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.
- Ann Brashares

If you could be either God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
- Chuck Palahniuk

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.
- Chuck Palahniuk

I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.
- Chuck Palahniuk

And I was holding someone who was destined to be my best friend, or possibly my worst enemy.
- Rick Riordan

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.
- Albert Einstein

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.
- Edwin Louis Cole

You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.
- Daniel Craig

I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.
- Taylor Dayne

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.
- Fred Durst

Once you get in a position where your rent is taken care of and you do have a job, you really get to deal with yourself and really become one with yourself. And you wake to your mind every day. That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.
- Fred Durst

Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy
- Bob Marley

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.
- Max Eastman

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
- George Orwell

Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King's Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy."
"How odd. I think quite the same of you.
- George R R Martin

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
- J Paul Getty

Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
- William Temple

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
- Sylvia Plath

It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man.
- Germaine Greer

Have you ever experienced a pain so sharp in your heart that it's all you can do to take a breath? It's a pain you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy; you wouldn't want to pass it on to anyone else for fear he or she might not be able to bear it. It's the pain of being betrayed by a person with whom you've fallen in love. It's not as serious as death, but it feels a whole lot like it, and as I've come to learn, pain is pain any way you slice it.
- Chelsea Handler

Stay in the boat, I told myself, watching them walk up to the pavilion. I'll just stay in the boat. I won't go anywhere near that creature.
But in spite of that wise warning, I climbed out of the boat.
Fine, stretch your legs, I told myself. Just don't follow them.
But of course, I followed them.
You are without question your own worst enemy, I scolded myself, even as I tiptoed after them.
- Merrie Haskell

Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!
- J K Rowling

Don't you see? Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!
- J K Rowling

Voldemort himself created his own worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress?
- J K Rowling

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
- Hesiod

Why is failure the first thing I think of when I find myself in this sort of situation? Why can't I just enjoy myself? But if you have to ask the question, then you know you're lost: self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy. Already I'm wondering whether she's as aware of my erection as I am..
- Nick Hornby

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
- Aldous Huxley

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
- Henrik Ibsen

A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.
- Robert Jordan

Memories are so two-faced.
One minute they're hugging you like a long-lost friend, the next minute they're ripping you apart like your worst enemy.
- Lesley Kagen

What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.
- Karen Kain

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller

Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.
- Mark Lawrence

Love can either be your greatest companion or your worst enemy, depending on your pride to accept or deny things.
- Anthony Liccione

...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of the human population: the human flood. The worst enemy of life is too much life: the excess of human life.
- Pentti Linkola

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.
- Louise Mensch

Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.
- Ben Nicholson

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.
- Gilbert Parker

There are a lot of people out there who think that I am their worst enemy, and I don't even care if these people exist.
- Boyd Rice

Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy.
- Theodore Roosevelt

If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won't find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. (99)
- Swami Satchidananda

You are your own worst enemy. So to enjoy life, tell yourself to sit down, shut up, and hang on, because it's going to be one Hell of a ride!
- A M Sawyer

Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.
- Gerrit Smith

When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.
- Ron Wood

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Bass Player Quotes

I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name. - Bryan Adams In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead. - David Amram I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally. - Ken Burns Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream. - Geezer Butler Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it. - Stanley Clarke There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same t...

Fat Person Quotes

She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person. - Terry Pratchett I sensed immediately that he'd once been overweight. He moved with a fat person's tiptoey apology. - Jennifer Egan I feel self-conscious calling my cat fat in front of a fat person, considering I'm skinny and inconsiderate. - Jarod Kintz I call myself a FFP: former fat person, and when you're an FFP, you will always see in yourself what people used to bully you for. - Kelly Osbourne Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal! - Daniel Pinkwater