He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. - William Hazlitt Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies. (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.) - Voltaire We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies. - Pythagoras But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad, they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch. - Vikram Seth