Adversary Quotes

You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expression, nor show too much pleasure ; but endeavor to console your adversary, and make him less dissatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expression, that may be. - Benjamin Franklin

You have to work more than your adversary. - Jurgen Klinsmann

Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time? / Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right? / When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison. - Bible

Without an adversary, prowess shrivels. - Seneca

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work. - Phil Keoghan

Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pain thine adversary by it? Know that thou thyself feelest its greatest torments. - Albert Schweitzer

When blithe to argument I come, / Though armed with facts, and merry, / May Providence protect me from / The fool as adversary, / Whose mind to him a kingdom is / Where reason lacks dominion, / Who calls conviction prejudice / And prejudice opinion. - Phyllis McGinley

What could be a better adversary for Jack than the most powerful man in the world? - Evan Katz

We see an adversary that ... continues to develop some sophistication on very deadly and increasingly precise standoff-type weapons. - Lawrence Di Rita

We respect the law of war, unlike our adversary, who uses mosques. - Richard Natonski