Enemy Mine/Quotes

War makes strange bedfellows.

—Winston Churchill

If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to The Devil in the House of Commons.

—Winston Churchill, following Hitler's invasion of Russia

The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.

—Maxim 29 of "The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries", Schlock Mercenary

To be a spy you need physical fitness, a facility with languages, a tolerance for exotic food and the bugs that come with them. But ultimately there's no greater qualification than the ability to look someone who ruined your life in the eye and say "Let's work together."

—Michael Westen, Burn Notice

Lash: Tee hee hee! I'm going to break everything!

Sonja: I don't understand why we work so well together...

—Advance Wars: Dual Strike

Mr. Dr. Possible: Sometimes it takes something like this to bring hero and villain together to work for the common good.
Ron: This happened to you before?

Mr. Dr. Possible: No! Heavens no. But in college I wrote a Captain Constellation fanfic with a very similar scenario.

—Kim Possible

Fate has us meet as foes, but this ring will make us brothers.

—The Gravemind, Halo 2

Do not shoot, but listen! Only you can halt what he has begun. Let me guide you safely to our foe.

—The Gravemind, Halo 3

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

—Abraham Lincoln

My enemy's enemy is a problem for later. In the meantime, they might be useful.

—Inquisitor Quixos (attributed), Warhammer 40,000

I find that when you intend to betray someone powerful, it's best not to be his only enemy.

—Garn, Shadows of Enchantment

Grif: So now we're forced to work together. How ironic.
Simmons: No, that's not ironic. Ironic would be if we had to work together to hurt each other.
Donut: No, ironic would be instead of that guy kidnapping Lopez, Lopez kidnapped him.
Sarge: I think it would be ironic if our guns didn't shoot bullets, but instead squirted a healing salve that cured all wounds.
Caboose: I think it would be ironic if everyone was made of iron.
TWO HOURS LATER

Church: Okay. [slowly] We're all agreed that while the current situation is not totally ironic, the fact that we have to work together is odd in an unexpected way that defies our normal circumstances. Is everybody happy with that?

—Red vs. Blue

Vegeta: Every fibre of my being wants to puke at once when I say this, but I need your heh... I need your helll-
Gohan: You need our help?

Vegeta: That, yes.

—Dragon Ball Abridged

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.

—Aristotle

Look, we both said a lot of things that you're going to regret, but I think we can put our differences behind us. For Science!. You Monster!.

—GLaDOS, Portal 2

Oh man, cooperation amongst enemies! I swear we'd be like in a Saturday night Christmas Special or something.

—Raocow

Look, even if you think we're still enemies, we're enemies with a common interest: revenge! You like revenge, right? Everybody likes revenge!

—GLaDOS, Portal 2

A common enemy unites even the deepest of foes.

—Reepicheep, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Sometimes when a threat is great enough... you have to turn to your enemies for help.

—Randy Marsh, South Park, "It's A Jersey Thing"

Giganta: If you think you're locking us up while the whole world is under attack, you got two fights on your hands.
(Justice League / Legion of Doom Death Glare)
Batman: ...She's right. We'll need all the bodies we can throw at this.
Superman: Oh, come on! It's Lex-Flippin-Luthor! Why should we trust him?
Atomic Skull: Hey, it's our world too!
Lex Luthor: Let's be clear about this: we're not here to help you save the world, you're here to help me get revenge on Darkseid. When this is over, it's back at business as usual.

Superman: (Death Glare) ...Wouldn't have it any other way.

—Justice League, "Destroyer"

My people have a saying: "Seek the enemy of your enemy, and you will find a friend."

—Urdnot Wrex, Mass Effect

If we didn't hate the same people, we would have a friendship based on nothing.

—Texts From Last Night

Though Mister Sinister may seem an odd ally, the pragmatism of "the enemy of your enemy is your friend" seems to apply.

—Beast, X-Men

Paperinik: Incredible.I'm fighting alongside my worst enemy.

Gorthan: Cherish the moment...and watch your back.

—Paperinik New Adventures, "Mekkano"

(commenting to this Gamergate life comic)
I believe a Winston Churchill quote is relevant to this whole shebang:
"If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons."
Only in this case, Hitler could declare on Twitter that he was planning to invade Gawker's offices and everyone would be falling over themselves to donate grease to shine the jackboots and oil the panzer treads.

—Darkjigglypuff on Spacebattles.com

The Lightning Crown will do neither of us any good if Europa ultimately falls to Lucrezia. [...]
At this rate there won't be an Empire for us to fight over.
Much as I hate to admit it, I need all of you. If we work together, you, Tarvek, Wulfenbach and I may be able to come up with something to fight her.

— Martellus von Blitzengaard offering a truce, Girl Genius vol. 20 page 009

Leonardo: We’d better go back and help Shredder and Baxter!
Donatello: Are you out of your gourd? They’re the bad guys, remember?
Leonardo: As Splinter says, sometimes one must make a pact with evil in order to accomplish good.
Raphael: You know, I don’t remember him saying that.

Leonardo: Well he would have, if he ever thought about it.

—Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles "The Case of the Killer Pizzas"