Robert Jordan Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.

  Robert Jordan

  Two, Enemy, Target

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.493, Macmillan

• Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.

  Robert Jordan

  Enemy, Three, Too Late

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.734, Macmillan

• A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.

  Robert Jordan

  Fall, Men, Worst Enemy

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.250, Macmillan

• The nobles and the noble Houses maneuver for advantage. They do things they think will help them, or hurt and enemy, or both. Usually, it's all done in secrecy, or if not, they try to make it seem as if they're doing something other than what they are.

  Robert Jordan

  Hurt, Thinking, House

  Robert Jordan (2009). “The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.306, Macmillan

• Yes...how else could Demandred explain the skill of the enemy general? Only a man with the experience of an ancient was so masterly at the dance of battlefields. At their core, many battle tactics were simple. Avoid being flanked, meet heavy force with pikes, infantry with a well-trained line, channelers with other channelers. And yet, the finesse of it...the little details...these took centuries to master. No man from this Age had lived long enough to learn the details with such care.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Simple, Skills

• A crafty enemy will set a weak ambush you are meant to break through. Confident because you have dealt with the threat, your guard relaxed, you walk into the second, stronger ambush.

  Robert Jordan

  Break Through, Enemy, Stronger

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.498, Macmillan

• Only a fool thinks his enemies stand still when he isn't looking, my Lord Dragon.

  Robert Jordan

  Thinking, Dragons, Enemy

  Robert Jordan (2010). “A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.92, Macmillan

• It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you.

  Robert Jordan

  Enemy, Underestimate

  Robert Jordan (2010). “A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.201, Macmillan

• For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.

  Robert Jordan

  Old Friends, Enemy, Wish

  Robert Jordan (2002). “The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.456, Macmillan

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