William Shakespeare Enemy Quotations

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

To some kind of men their graces serve them but as enemies.

Light and lust are deadly enemies.

Our enemies are our outward consciences.

I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.

At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.

He hath disgrac'd me and hind'red me half a million; laugh'd at my losses, mock'd at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies. And what's his reason? I am a Jew.

Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.

He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.

Security is the chief enemy of mortals.

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.

Because I cannot flatter and look fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, I must be held a rancorous enemy.

My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.

Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!