Robert Burton Quotes

Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Does my character hate Bree? Well, let's just put it this way. Bree hasn't seen the last of me. I gave that drunk gal a ride home a few episodes ago and she turned on me!

Despise your enemy and you will soon be beaten.

A close friend can become a close enemy.

I've got news for you... both those idiots [Al Snow and the Rock] aren't your friends! They hate you! Everybody hates you! All the people at home, all these people in the arena hate you, and most importantly, Y2J hates you!

We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.

It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends.

Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.

People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.

People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him.

I was shocked at the anger toward me.

Let my enemies devour each other.

Coco Chanel hated me. I can understand why.

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.

A sense of grievance can accumulate with the success of conflict no matter how it has been resolved.

All men work more zealously against their enemies than they cooperate with their friends.

No better friend, no worse enemy

I have gold for my friends, and iron for my enemies