Quotes about Foe
For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.
— Psalm 55:12
If you are foe, we do not fear you. If you are friend, your foes will be taught the fear of us.
— CS Lewis
Outrage is also an exceptional weapon that can pierce the armor of nearly any foe. It's like a bow with three magically tipped arrows: shame, guilt, and fear.
— Glenn Beck
The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any people of the world, that an enemy or a foe could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
— Lamentations 4:12
He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned. Like a foe He has killed all who were pleasing to the eye; He has poured out His wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.
— Lamentations 2:4
Before mine eyes in opposition sitsGrim Death my son and foe.
— John Milton
The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; he catches them in his dragnet, and gathers them in his fishing net; so he rejoices gladly.
— Habakkuk 1:15
if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause,
— Psalm 7:4
Each time that my enemy would provoke me to combat, I behave as a gallant soldier. I know that a duel is an act of cowardice, and so, without once looking him in the face, I turn my back on the foe, then I hasten to my Saviour, and vow that I am ready to shed my blood in witness of my belief in Heaven.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
With the jawbone of an ass… have I slain a thousand men.
— Anonymous
Sharing the same blood with England, and yet her proved foe in two wars—not wholly inclined at bottom to forget an old grudge—intrepid, unprincipled, reckless, predatory, with boundless ambition, civilized in externals but a savage at heart, America is, or may yet be, the Paul Jones of nations. Regarded in this indicatory
— Herman Melville
While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace, both joining, As joined in injuries, and enmity Against a foe by doom express assigned us, That cruel serpent.
— John Milton