".., by universal custom, your enemy is never……" — James Clavell

".., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction."

— James Clavell

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31 Quotes by James Clavell

James Clavell has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It's always important to take time to study men -- important men. Friends and enemies.
Horses are far worse than men for treachery...
How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable…
Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own…
God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.
The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.
All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.
Christ, it's so good to be alive.
You've committed murder just as much as Hélène did. You killed a fly with a human head, she killed a…
Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will change…
The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.
Isn’t it only through laughter that we become one with the gods and thus can endure life and can overcome…

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More Custom Quotes

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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. — Mary Astell
Custom is second nature. — Saint Augustine
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be… — Marcus Aurelius
The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are… — Teresa of Avila
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to… — Francis Bacon
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs… — Ruth Benedict
Custom reconciles us to everything. — Edmund Burke
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. — Samuel Butler
It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head… — Sholom Aleichem
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. — Dante Alighieri
Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may… — Lord Chesterfield
The best interpreter of the law is custom. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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