You can always make enemies of your friends,’ said Sumael. ‘Making friends of your enemies is harder labor.
– Joe Abercrombie
Related Quotes:
- Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies Just as enemies must not be friends.Discerning the two is a life’s work. – David Petersen
- Today’s enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today’s friends can be tomorrow’s enemies. – Suzy Kassem
- The gods hate those who plan badly, and help those with good friends, good swords, and good sense. – Joe Abercrombie
- Regardless of the perpetual battle between believers and atheists, for me, religion is a tool of making friends, rather than making enemies. – Abhijit Naskar
- The enemies of your enemies are not always your friends, but they can still be useful. – James D S
- A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor. – Victor Hugo
- Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded. – Karl Marx
- Ask not what your Joe Montaperto can do for you, but rather what YOU can do for your Joe Montaperto. – Joe Montaperto
- Those with the least always lose the most in war. – Joe Abercrombie
- While friends are there to motivate us and keep us pleased. Our enemies are there to annoy us, which makes us work harder to beat them. – Simon Zingerman
- Enemies and easy to get and even easier to keep. But friends are hard to get and even harder to keep. – Sneha Abraham
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- It’s all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends? – Willa Cather
- You have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime. – Ziad K Abdelnour
- Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud. – Joe Abercrombie
- A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere. – Joe Abercrombie
- Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose. – Joe Abercrombie
- Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter. – Joe Abercrombie
- So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You’re a hero. – Joe Abercrombie
- …Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field – Joe Abercrombie
- Every war carries within it the seeds of the next. – Joe Abercrombie
- Armour… is part of a state of mind… in which you admit the possibility… of being hit. – Joe Abercrombie
- One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things. – Joe Abercrombie
- Enough pain makes a coward of anyone. – Joe Abercrombie
- Men are brittle, I reckon. They don’t bend into new shapes. They get broken into them. Crushed into them. – Joe Abercrombie
- Memories sharp enough to cut himself on – the smells, the sounds, the feel of the air on his skin, the desperate hope and mad anger. – Joe Abercrombie
- it was like staring at a whitewashed wall, but without all the emotion – Joe Abercrombie
- The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do… – Joe Abercrombie
- Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage. – Joe Abercrombie
- Trust is like glass. Lovely, but only a fool rests lots of weight on it. – Joe Abercrombie
- A man can forgive all manner of faults in beautiful women that in ugly men he find entirely beyond sufferance – Joe Abercrombie
- I apologise, your Highness. Murder can be a painful business. – Joe Abercrombie
- But you know what they say – old milk turns sour but old scores just get sweeter. – Joe Abercrombie
- Bravery is the dead man’s virtue. – Joe Abercrombie
- It was what you gave out that made a man, not what you got back. – Joe Abercrombie
- The Bloody-Nine opened his mouth, and shrieked out all of his bottomless love and his endless hate in one long wail. – Joe Abercrombie
- Sometimes it doesn’t matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it. – Joe Abercrombie
- I want a chance to do it all again. To do it-¦ right. – Joe Abercrombie
- Sometimes, when someone lives in danger for too long, the only time they feel alive is when death’s breathing on their shoulder. – Joe Abercrombie
- Empathy? What’s that?- Glokta winced as he rubbed at his aching leg. -œIt’s a sad fact, but pain only makes you sorry for yourself. – Joe Abercrombie