We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us.

Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.

No one has it who isnt capable of genuinely liking others at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine it may be superficial but it isnt false.

Wars may be fought by decent men but theyre not won by them.

Every island to a child is a treasure island.

Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individual voice though practicing constantly. Go through the world with your eyes and ears open and learn to express that experience in words.

Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing.

But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.

The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

Keep your enemies in front of you.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

It is not enough for me to win. My enemies must lose.

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

I'm just grateful to be on this planet. I have no enemies that I know of. I'm just the guy who makes happy.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

We are at war with enemies that still have the intent to do further damage to Americans at home and abroad.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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

Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Forgive your enemies, but first get even.

The Home Guards are required to come in at once and deliver up their arms, those who fail to do so will be regarded as enemies of the Government and treated accordingly.

Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Always keep your friends close, but your enemies keep closer.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Forget your enemies. It's your friends you frustrate that cause all the problems.

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.