A Quote by Philip Reeve

The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false.

Philip Reeve

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Enemy False Friend One Thing Than The One Thing Thing Turned Worse

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Philip Reeve
British - Author
Born: February 28, 1966

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Aesop

There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Demonstrate to the world, there is 'No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy' than a U.S. Marine.

Jim Mattis

Demonstrate to the world there is "No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy" than a U.S. Marine.

James Mattis

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right.

James F. Cooper

We have a saying in the Marine Corps and that is 'no better friend, no worse enemy, than a U.S. Marine.' We always hope for the first, friendship, but are certainly more than ready for the second.

John F. Kelly

Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

Elie Wiesel

Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.

George Eliot

A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

Eric Hoffer

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning.

Hermann Hesse

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Saadi

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.

William Saroyan

If an organ gets a "dis-ease" you want to care for it like a wounded friend, not an enemy who's turned against you.

Judith Orloff

There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.