Enemies are so stimulating.
—Katharine Hepburn, 1969
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When a coward sees a man he can beat, he becomes hungry for a fight.
—Chinua Achebe, 1960With the dead there is no rivalry.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1839How can we bear misfortune most easily? If we see our enemies faring worse.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 585 BCAn injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1746We die of comfort and by conflict live.
—May Sarton, 1953I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
—Willa Cather, 1915It is permitted to learn even from an enemy.
—Ovid, c. 8Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
—Karl Kraus, 1912From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
—Herman Melville, 1851Do we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?
—Amy Lowell, 1922No one wins a quarrel by quarreling.
—German proverbEnvy and hatred are apt to blind the eyes and render them unable to behold things as they are.
—Margaret of Valois, c. 1600