Enemy Piece

Famous quotes containing the words enemy and/or piece:

“Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.”
—Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695)

“A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondency, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity.... He is known by his knock.”
—Charles Lamb (1775–1834)