Bob Marley Quotes

Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous.

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

There's always someone who wants to make you look bad.

Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.

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

They're betting on how long I'll live!" I burst out. "They're not my friends!" "Well, try and pretend!" snaps Effie. Then she composes herself and beams at me. "See, like this. I'm smiling at you even though you're aggravating me.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

The thing I'm having a hard time with are the Christians who will stab you in the back in a wink.

Too often in politics the stiletto is slipped between your shoulder blades, while its wielder continues to smile sweetly.

… an enemy within the gates, doing more harm than good.

Politics—where they pat you on the back so they'll know where to stick the knife.

He would double-cross and destroy the reputation of anybody.

A lot of people hoped that I died during my ill health. Some even reached out to the vice-president to consider them to be his deputy because they assumed I was dead.

On the second verse of 'Tears to Snow,' I talk about rappers and the way they view me now, rappers in the underground world who I might've know for a little bit, or they might've opened a show for me. A lot of them talk crap about me behind my back, and they'll smile in my face.

The people that you think are supposed to be there for you and be happy for you - instead they want to tear you down.

General Biassou is a simple, vulnerable man without much knowledge, and he is easily led astray by the scoundrels surrounding him. He has sworn eternal hatred for me, and for some time now, he has been trying to destroy me using whatever means he can.

The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.

Beware the viper in your closet. Isn’t that another thing you’re always saying, Father? Ambition and jealousy are at the heart of all betrayals. (Ryssa)

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.

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

I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name comes up he pretends to barf.

I never knew until I came here to Hollywood that somebody could be really nice to you for years and really hate your guts. Happens all the time here.