Sara Shepard Quotes

I love enemies, though not in the Christian way. They amuse me, excite my blood. Being always on one’s guard, catching every glance, the significance of every word, guessing at intentions, frustrating their plots, pretending to be tricked, and suddenly, with a shove, upturning the whole enormous and arduously built edifice of their cunning and schemes—that’s what I call life.

I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.

If you believe that their real intention is to kill you, it isn't unreasonable to believe that they would lie to you.

Don't forgive and never forget; Do unto others before they do unto you; and third and most importantly, keep your eye on your friends, because your enemies will take care of themselves!

All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.

Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair.

Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.

The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead

Trust is a good way to get oneself killed

Those that trust no one, usually end up trusting the wrong person."-Umma to Midnight

It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.

Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.

Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed-men, and such as sleep o'nights; Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

An essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises.

Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.

Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.

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.

I never know if the person I'm shaking hands with is coming to kill me. That's something you have to live with when you cross the lines.

Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King's Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy." "How odd. I think quite the same of you.

I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.

Never trust a man who combs his hair straight from his left armpit.

Seducers are more dangerous enemies to the church than persecutors.