Politics has friendship, enmity, intrigue and even humour.

My only politics have been friendship.

— Jean Cocteau

There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or by…

— Ptolemy

“The most meaningful way to express your friendship and enmity is saying nothing at all”

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

Do not look at anybody in terms of friend or foe, brother or cousin; do not fritter away your mental energies in thoughts of…

— Adi Shankara

“I used to imagine life divided into separate compartments, consisting, for example, of such dual abstractions as pleasure and pain, love and hate, friendship…

— Anthony Powell

“Ideas on Earth were badges of friendship or enmity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“And here, according to Trout, was the reason human beings could not reject ideas because they were bad: "Ideas on Earth were badges of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

People are not naturally either friends or enemies: friendship and enmity arise from circumstances.

— Ritu Ghatourey

New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or…

— Patrice Pavis

“Jabir listened but was not convinced.  “Iraq and Iran haven’t gotten along for many centuries. Why should we now?”

— Karl Braungart

“My daughter, people are only used to seeing the glorified in a story, because a story is only a tiny, tiny piece of a…

— Darryl Steven Markowitz

“Mary never made it to the board meeting. Cunning Elizabeth simply arranged for her cousin's tennis instructor to "delay" her for an hour or…

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

The neighbourhood is a place of...intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street their tongues are like the…

— Nadeem Aslam

As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity,…

— Oscar Wilde

Intrigue is so much more effective. I don't like to be over-prescriptive of an audience. The same with a book or with art -…

— Rupert Friend