But you know as well as I do that anger won’t solve anything.”
“I beg to differ,” he shrugged. “Anger can be quite rewarding…at least for those of us who have the option of blasting our enemies to oblivion.
Stichwörter: humor paranormal-romance enemies anger sarcastic-humor
He finds he cannot think of the dying men at all. Into his mind instead strays the picture of More on the scaffold, seen through the veil of rain: his body, already dead, folding back neatly from the impact of the axe. The cardinal when he fell had no persecutor more relentless than Thomas More. Yet, he thinks, I did not hate him. I exercised my skills to the utmost to persuade him to reconcile with the king. And I thought I would win him, I really thought I would, for he was tenacious of the world, tenacious of his person, and had a good deal to live for. In the end he was his own murderer. He wrote and wrote and he talked and talked, then suddenly at a stroke he cancelled himself. If ever a man came close to beheading himself, Thomas More was that man.
Hilary MantelStichwörter: enemies reflection
He looks around at his guests. All are prepared. A Latin grace; English would be his choice, but he will suit his company. Who cross themselves ostentatiously, in papist style. Who look at him, expectant. He shouts for the waiters. The doors burst open. Sweating men heave the platters to the table. It seems the meat is fresh, in fact not slaughtered yet. It is just a minor breach of etiquette. The company must sit and salivate. The Boleyns are laid at his hand to be carved.
Hilary MantelStichwörter: enemies
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
Alfred TennysonStichwörter: life friendship friends people enemies
As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.
Ralph Waldo EmersonStichwörter: success enemies fame criticism praise enemy foes foe
The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
AesopStichwörter: enemies feathers birds arrows
Friend' is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.
Victor HugoStichwörter: words friends enemies meaning
I would sooner lose my best friend than my worst enemy. To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.
Oscar WildeStichwörter: friendship friends enemies character
Hatred will never be erased! The only thing you can do... is erase the ones you hate. - Hakuryuu
Shinobu OhtakaStichwörter: hate enemies hatred magi-the-labyrinth-of-magic erase hakuryuu
A man who lies about beer makes enemies
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