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Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you want to burn your passport and beg the Luftwaffe to have another go.
Sep 10, 2025
It's always important to take time to study men -- important men. Friends and enemies.
The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.
He who treats his friends and enemies alike, has neither love nor justice.
I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.
A strong foe is better than a weak friend.
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.
The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Taylor Swift is very strategic with her friends and enemies. And I know lots of secrets. I can't divulge, but I know a lot of stuff about her. And I'm scared. I'm scared for my life.
The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy
He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.
The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death.
Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.
An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew, and not infrequently my childish ideal has been so closely approached that friend and enemy coincided in the same person.
The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed... The heart's fierce effort to protect itself from every slight, to shield its touchy honor from the bad opinion of friend and enemy, will never let the mind have rest.
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don't want to leave anybody out.
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.
Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies.
As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accursed An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed.
People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.
Never take anything for granted.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances, wars, religion. It is about memory and tradition and, at times, even about sex.
But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.
It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious life a great part passes without study. An author partakes of the common condition of humanity; he is born and married like another man; he has hopes and fears, expectations and disappointments, griefs and joys, and friends and enemies, like a courtier or a statesman; nor can I conceive why his affairs shuld not excite curiosity as much as the whisper of a drawing-room, or the factions of a camp.
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate. I would prefer to stay in the Writing Burrow and play with my imaginary friends and enemies. I get sucked into these things.
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
I have a recurring daymare that when the Glorious People's SWAT Teams smash their way in, most of us - by which I mean members of the general freedom movement - will be caught flatfooted, sitting in our underwear behind our computer monitors, guzzling Jolt and gorging on Cheetos, while arguing with our friends and enemies online about immigration or abortion, two of the issues that the Lefties know they can always rely on to keep that general freedom movement divided and powerless.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.