Jonathan Swift Quotes

Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

Be careful of your enemy once and of your friend a thousand times, for a double crossing friend knows more about what harms you.

An intelligent enemy is better than a stupid friend.

I had rather be plundered by my enemies than by my friends.

No better friend, no worse enemy

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor.

Trust not a new friend or an old enemy.

Be on guard against your friends.

Set of Vipers

Treat your friends as if they were going to be your enemies one day.

I love the treason but hate the traitor.

Our ally has done us more harm than if it had been in open war with us.

Do not forget that a traitor within our ranks, known to us, can do more harm to the enemy than a loyal man can do good to us.

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

Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.

An enemy's gift is ruinous and no gift.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

Know this, if someone has cheated on you who truly loves you, they have hurt themselves as much as they have hurt you.

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.