the king he allowed he would drop over to t'other village without any plan, but just trust in Providence to lead him the profitable way - meaning the devil, I reckon.
- Mark Twain
I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out.
- Red Adair
The Prince came to give life unto those whose lives were almost being snuffed out by the devil via the cares of this world.
- Jaachynma N E Agu
God is not a thief. That which steals, kills and destroys is the devil - not God!
- Jaachynma N E Agu
God made food; the devil the cooks.
- James Joyce
...you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong if, when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb: 'The devil is in the detail.' Remember that proverb and you'll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one.
- Paulo Coelho
You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.
- Paulo Coelho
The brave are those who make decisions despite their fear, who are tormented by the Devil every step of the way and gripped by anxiety about their every action, wondering if they are right or wrong. And yet nevertheless, they act.
- Paulo Coelho
What's worse...?
The devil you don't know... or the devil you do?
- Jodi Picoult
The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I drown him and every day he gnaws. Help me drown the worm, fellas.
- Nelson Algren
The devil is not as black as he is painted.
- Dante Alighieri
We don't know for certain that she's a warlock, Jessie," said Will.
Jessamine ignored him. "Is it dreadful, being so evil? Are you worried you'll go to hell?" She leaned closer to Tessa. "What do you think the Devil's like?"
Tessa set her fork down. "Would you like to meet him? I could summon him up in a trice if you like. Being a warlock, and all.
- Cassandra Clare
If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away
- Sarah Addison Allen
I'd bitch slap the devil for you.
- Janet Evanovich
Well, sure, but I don't bring God into it. I think shower massage might have been invented by the devil. God invented the missionary position.
- Janet Evanovich
Good thing he's dead," Lula said, "or that would have hurt like the devil.
- Janet Evanovich
Equations are the devil's sentences.
- Stephen Colbert
You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.
- Alexandre Dumas
Please, baby, you had to know the Devil would be well endowed.
- Debra Anastasia
Beckett smiled at his past and future customers with both his dimples. No need to feel alarmed, his smile told them. The devil always had the biggest welcome mat at his door.
- Debra Anastasia
The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?
- Maya Angelou
That is why we were drawn to one another and why we are brother and sister. I am going to teach you to dance and play and smile, and still not be happy. And you are going to teach me to think and to know and yet not be happy. Do you know that we are both children of the Devil?
- Hermann Hesse
With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
- Jean Anouilh
When the devil grows old he turns hermit.
- Ludovico Ariosto
Ah, Evie," she heard him say softly, "I must have a heart, after all...because right now it aches like the devil."
"Only your heart?" she asked ingenuously, making him laugh.
He lowered her to the bed, his eyes sparkling wickedly. "Also a few other things," he conceded. "And as my wife, it's your duty to ease all my aches.
- Lisa Kleypas
A lack of desire is something I've never experienced. I'd have to
be on my deathbed before I stopped wanting--
no, never mind, I was on my deathbed in
the not-too-distant past, and even then I had the devil's own itch for my wife.
-Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent
- Lisa Kleypas
Fear you?" she said without thinking. "Good God, I would never do that."
Easing her head back, Westcliff looked at her while a slow smile spread across his face. "No, you wouldn't," he agreed. "You'd spit in the devil's eye if it suited you.
- Lisa Kleypas
Woulda made a deal with the devil to get my wife and daughter back." He was still whispering and my breath stilled.
"Don't have that chance so nothin' I can do about that. But I darkened your door, baby, and you lit up my life again so I'm not lettin' that go.
- Kristen Ashley
The roof of the big top was dark blue, spangled with silver stars, and it reminded him of something but he couldn't think what, and then he realized it was the roof - the vault of heaven - in a side chapel at the Catholic church where his mother dragged them three times a day on Sunday when they were very small, until she ran out of energy and let the devil have them. (One Good Turn)
- Kate Atkinson
The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!
- Rowan Atkinson
More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?
- Margaret Atwood
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
- Thomas Carlyle
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
- Thomas Carlyle
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
- Francis Bacon
The devil can be a clown of prizes in moments like these. Moments of knowing you've ventured too far down the wrong path and all you can do is accept more prizes..
- J M August
The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
Don't be disheartened by the forces of evil. Nothing can happen that God hasn't allowed. Even resistance is all part of grand orchestration. The devil always has you right were God wants you.
- Steve Maraboli
If the universe does consist of a battle between the devil and God, the final analysis should conclude that religion would have been the devil's most brilliant move and science, God's.
- Steve Maraboli
This life is for loving, sharing, learning, smiling, caring, forgiving, laughing, hugging, helping, dancing, wondering, healing, and even more loving. I choose to live life this way. I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, 'aw shit, he's up!
- Steve Maraboli
I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, aw shit, he's up!
- Steve Maraboli
Grace-" He scowled, then laughed. "What the devil is your middle name?"
"Catriona." she whispered.
"Grace Catriona Eversleigh," he said, loud and sure, "I love you.
- Julia Quinn
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.
- Pearl Bailey
Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?
- Josephine Baker
With slouch and swing around the ring
We trod the Fools' Parade!
We did not care: we knew we were
The Devils' Own Brigade:
And shaven head and feet of lead
Make a merry masquerade.
- Oscar Wilde
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
- Hosea Ballou
Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print.
- Iain Banks
People talk and rumors follow," I said.
"Most people claim that only a person possessed of the devil could write such horror."
"And what do you think?"
"You are an angel to me, Eddy, but never bet the devil your head."
"That would make a great title for a story," I observed.
- Andrew Barger
Irony - The modern mode: either the devil's mark or the snorkel of sanity.
- Julian Barnes
You didn't think I was going to kill you that easily, did you? For what you did to her, you are going to suffer every second between now and dawn. I'm going to give you pain the likes of which my mama's people were famed for. And when I finally end your life, you will thank me for it." Sundown
"Go to hell!" Bart
"You already send me there. It's your turn now. Give the devil my regards." Sundown
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
You really are here. (Thanatos)
Hair of the dog, baby. Sooner or later, we all dance with the devil. Tonight, it's your turn. (Zarek)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
When you dance with the devil, you don't get to pick the tune.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
You know, I've never understood it. They make a deal with the devil herself and then expect me to bail them out of every minor scrape. Then when I show up to help them, they cop an attitude and tell me to blow. So if I'm selfish for wanting four days a year to be left alone, then I'm just a selfish bastard. Sue me. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
So if the punks come here, they're going to dance with the devil and get the short end of the horn. (Zarek)
No one better than my Zarek to rip someone's head off. You two should get along famously. (Astrid)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Even the Devil may cry when he looks around Hell and realizes he's alone.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
You don't knock on the devil's door, boy, unless you want him to answer. (Ravyn)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Should we start making preparations here? (Tory)
Punk-ass won't come to my island! He knows better. You don't tap on the Devil's shoulder unless you're willing to dance to his tune. (Savitar)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Boy, you knock on the devil's door and he will head slam you through the wall.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Trust me, baby. Everyone wants someone they can hold and love. Someone who will be there to help pick up the pieces when everything falls apart. Sin is no different from anyone else. If you have any care for Sin at all, don't leave him in the darkness. It's not fair to show someone the sun and then banish him from it. Even the devil may cry when looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
What was it Grandpa used to say? 'You may pawn your soul to the devil, but the good Lord will always bail you out?' (Zeke)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Intentions don't matter. It's the end result we're all judged by. Evil in the name of good is still evil. And when you dance with the devil, you seldom get to pick the tune.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Marry me, Abigail, and I swear this time, curse or no curse, I will make it to that damned altar. Even if I drag the devil with me to be there on time. Sundown
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Whoever was responsible for his death would pay and the devil in him would demand double the interest. (Nathan)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
It's not fair to show someone the sun and then banish him from it. Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone. -Acheron
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Ectoplasmic plane? What the devil is that? (Simone)
It's jargon from those of us who are corporeally challenged. It's the great beyond where we bounce into each other like floundering atoms. It's really kind of gross which is why I hang out with you. But only because you're less gross than they are. (Jesse)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
So you do have more fight in you. (Thanatos)
Looks like the devil just hiked his ass up to Alaska to see the snow. C'mon, punk, let's dance. (Zarek)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
If there is Predestination, then God is the devil.
by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor
- Mary Ann Shaffer
The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world that he did not exist.
- Charles Baudelaire
The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist.
- Charles Baudelaire
the Devil's hand directs our every move - / the things we loathed become the things we love
- Charles Baudelaire
It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance
- Charles Baudelaire
The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;
We find delight in the most loathsome things;
Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,
And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.
- Charles Baudelaire
A church debt is the devil's salary.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.
- Anne Baxter
The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit.
- Michael Bay
There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.
- Peter S Beagle
He was a cat of double personality - or else, as Susan vowed, he was possessed by the devil.
- L M Montgomery
Liza had a finely developed sense of sin Idleness was a sin, and card playing, which was a kind of idleness to her. She was suspicious of fun whether it involved dancing or singing or even laughter. She felt that people having a good time were wide open to the devil. And this was a shame, for Samuel was a laughing man, but I guess Samuel was wide open to the devil. His wife protected him whenever she could.
- John Steinbeck
The devil knows that if the elders of Israel should ever wake up, they could step forth and help preserve freedom and extend the gospel. Therefore the devil has concentrated, and to a large extent successfully, in neutralizing much of the priesthood. He has reduced them to Sleeping Giants.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Today the devil as a wolf in supposedly a new suit of sheep's clothing is enticing some men to parrot his line by advocating planned government guaranteed security at the expense of our liberties.
- Ezra Taft Benson
There are times when you simply have to righteous hang on and outlast the devil.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Theology is the logic of the Devil.
- Jose Bergamin
To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
- Jose Bergamin
It is as evil as we are positive...the more desperately we try to be good and wonderful and perfect, the more the Shadow develops a definite will to be black and evil and destructive... The fact is that if one tries beyond one's capacity to be perfect, the Shadow descends to hell and becomes the devil.
- Haruki Murakami
Satan is too hard a master. He would never command as did the Other with divine simplicity: 'Do likewise.' The devil will have no victims resemble him. He permits only a rough caricature, impotent, abject, which has to serve as food for eternal irony, the mordant irony of the depths. -- Diary of a Country Priest
- Georges Bernanos
Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.
- Thomas Bernhard
If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?
- Wendell Berry
Near below peak of mount Merbabu in Java,
there is a forest known as the devil market.
I had been there once. And when you are there,
you will sense the crowd, voices of nothingness.
Your mind will say it is just accustics effect of the nature,
but your heart will tell you something totally different.
- Toba Beta
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
- Ambrose Bierce
Gossip is the Devil's radio.
- George Harrison
The Id and the Superego are more scientific ways of considering the Devil and God, or your personal angels and demons. Science has turned the relationship between God, the Devil and you into a viewpoint for all to understand without the framework of religious belief to sidetrack the layperson into another realm of thinking.
- Stephen Biro
Who knew that the devil had a factory where he made millions of fossils, which his minions distributed throughout the earth, in order to confuse my tiny brain?
- Lewis Black
Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.
- Holly Black
To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!
Up and down that narrow hall they danced, the women on each side of him, to the wildest measure he had ever imagined, yet which he dimly, dreadfully remembered, till the lamp on the wall flickered and went out, and they were left in total darkness. And the devil woke in his heart with a thousand vile suggestions and made him afraid.
- Algernon Blackwood
God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.
- William Peter Blatty
Dr Sass...maintained that in paradise, until the time of the fall, the whole world was flat, the back-curtain of the Lord, and that it was the devil who invented a third dimension. Thus are the words 'straight', 'square', and 'flat' the words of noblemen, but the apple was an orb, and the sin of our first parents, the attempt at getting around God. I myself much prefer the art of painting to sculpture
- Karen Blixen
Thomas More:...And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast--man's laws, not God's--and if you cut them down...d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
- Robert Bolt
The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.
- Thomas More
First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.
- Edward Bond
If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.
- Corrie Ten Boom
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
- William Shakespeare
Tis too much provedthat with devotion's visage
And pious action we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
- William Shakespeare
What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
- William Shakespeare
LEONATO
Well, then, go you into hell?
BEATRICE
No, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long.
- William Shakespeare
Zounds, sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you...I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are making the beast with two backs.
- William Shakespeare
O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!
- William Shakespeare
The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek.
- William Shakespeare
Refrain to-night;
And that shall lend a kind of easiness
To the next abstinence, the next more easy;
For use almost can change the stamp of nature,
And either master the devil or throw him out
With wondrous potency.
- William Shakespeare
We are oft to blame in this, -
'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage,
and pios action we do sugar o'er
the devil himself.
- William Shakespeare
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd, old ends stol'n out of holy writ,
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
- William Shakespeare
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
- William Shakespeare
In nature there's no blemish but the mind;
None can be called deformed but the unkind:
Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil
Are empty trunks, o'erflourished by the devil.
- William Shakespeare
The devil take order! I'll to the throng:
Let life be short, else shame will be too long.
- William Shakespeare
My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil drives.
- William Shakespeare
Logic is what the devil likes most.
- Kelly Braffet
Increase Mather, President of Harvard University, in his treatise on Remarkable Providences, insists that the smell of herbs alarms the Devil and that medicine expels him. Such beliefs have probably even now not wholly disappeared from among us.
- James Henry Breasted
If a hole in your wall is large enough for a rat to get his head in, rats will soon take over your home. If there is a hole in your heart large enough for the devil to get his head in, he'll waste no time moving in too. (from book number 3- coming soon in the Carolina Rain series)
- Nancy B Brewer
I don't count that relationship with Ricky. It's just like a blip at this point. I had to fall in love with the devil himself to get this sweet angel, Jack.
- Christie Brinkley
Peter had two short swords strapped on his back, the belts crisscrossing his chest bandito style. A black splash of war paint covered his face, and his golden eyes gleamed out from the paint. He pulled his swords free, clanged them together, and all the Devils lined up on either side of him. (the Child Thief)
- Brom
And Peter laughed, and when he did, all the Devils grinned, because Peter's laugh was a most contagious thing.
- Brom
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?"
- Rudyard Kipling
Lucky Tyler: "Yeah, you're here, looking more like the preacher's wife come calling than an overnight alibi. Who's gonna believe I tumbled you?" The devil in him was kicking up his heels, goading him to say things he knew damn well would rub her the wrong way. But he felt he was justified in being ornery. He didn't particularly like her attitude either.
Devon Haines:"What did you expect me to wear? A negligee?"
Lucky Tyler: "I----
- Sandra Brown
Sometimes the scariest things in life aren't the Vampires and the Werewolves, sometimes there are things even God doesn't want to know about. Which is why he created the Devil's Roses.
- Tara Brown
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
- Robert Burton
Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.
- Jean De La Fontaine
Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.
- Bill Bryson
The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has..
- E A Bucchianeri
Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Anarchy loves theatre. That's the whole point. People forget that. You have to laugh at the devil, not fight him. They'll always have more guns, they'll always have more bombs that go off with a bigger bang. No matter how revolting you become they'll always be willing to be more revolting to you. They've had so much more practice.
- Melvin Burgess
When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.
- James Lee Burke
I see my discourse leaves you cold;
Dear kids, I do not take offense;
Recall: the Devil, he is old,
Grow old yourselves, and he'll make sense!
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well,
He hardly will be caught a second time.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
As he came leaping in, the poodle did not heed it.
The matter now seems turned about;
The Devil's in the house and can't get out.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
- William Ralph Inge
Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
- Gary Busey
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
- Samuel Butler
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
- Samuel Butler
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
- Albert Einstein
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
- William Hazlitt
I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.
- Gabriel Byrne
The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
- Voltaire
God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.
- Voltaire
Eve: She told me last!
Shane: Boyfriend!
Michael: Landlord!
Eve: Crap. Right. Next time you sell your soul to the devil, I get first contact!
- Rachel Caine
Here, kitty, kitty, Chico says. The cover of his cage is still on, making his tiny clown voice slightly muffled. I feel bad for him under there, just waiting to start his evil little day...Freud walks toward Chico in his slinky fashion, sits under his cage and just stares. We have satanic pets...our pets seem to have made a pact with the devil.
- Deb Caletti
I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.
- Maria Callas
The devil takes us to the top of an exceeding high mountain and makes us dizzy; but God lets us look at the mountain.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can't play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
They used to call the devil the father of lies. But for someone whose sin is meant to be pride, you'd think that lying would leave something of a sour taste. So my theory is that when the devil wants to get something out of you, he doesn't lie at all. He tells you the exact, literal truth. And he lets you find your own way to hell.
- Mike Carey
When God has abandoned you and the devil is snapping at your heels, what you really need on your side is a bigger devil.
- Mike Carey
St. Bernard said, 'Every word one writes smites the Devil.
- Lillian Stewart Carl
Never let the brain idle. 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop.' And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.
- George Carlin
I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.
- Jim Carrey
That, I realized, is the great beauty of dreams: the devil may inevitably find a way to jerk you off, but you can always wake up before he makes you cum.
- Jim Carroll
They say there's an ointment the Devil gives you that turns you into a wolf the minute you rub it on.
- Angela Carter
Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you.
- Angela Carter
As my lawyer dad would say, I had breached a contract with the devil.
- Elle Casey
Nefarious purposes translation: For disgusting demon sex and the birth of the Devil incarnate. Nice.
- Elle Casey
something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil..
- Ana Castillo
The demons of the Devil don't use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones. If you're rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you're loyal and faithful, they turn those against you. If you're passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears. Your weak weaknesses are no use to them.... They find the strongest weaknesses you didn't know were yours and use those against you.
- Aidan Chambers
Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.
- Oswald Chambers
Neutral men are the devil's allies.
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Lydia: What the devil do you mean by creeping up on me? You're suppose to be in a brothel.
Vere: I lied. I can't believe you fell for the old going-to-a-brothel ruse. You didn't even look out the window to make sure I'd gone away.
- Loretta Chase
The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
- Stephen King
The devil you knew was always preferable to the devil you didn't.
- Stephen King
so here he sits one drunk nigger in a puclic libary after closing, with the book open in front of me and the bottle of Old Kentucky on my left. 'Tell the truth and shame the devil,' my mom used to say , but she forgot to tell me that sometimes you can't shame Mr Splitfoot sober. The Irish know, but of course they're God's white niggers and who knows maybe they're a step ahead.
- Stephen King
Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.
- C J Cherryh
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
- Winston Churchill
I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested--'But these impulses may be from below, not from above.' I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live them from the devil.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
- Lydia M Child
However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness, and caprice.
- Emil Cioran
Good defeats evil most of the times, but sometimes in order to defeat the devil you must first become his disciple
- Gaiven Clairmont
["The Devil in the Dark"] impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn.
- Arthur C Clarke
I'm pretty, but I'm not beautiful.
I'm sin, but I'm not the devil.
I'm good, but I'm not an angel.
I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
- Marilyn Monroe
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker.
- Marilyn Monroe
Im pretty, but im not beautiful. I sin, but im not the devil. Im good, but im not an angel.
- Marilyn Monroe
May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
- Jean Cocteau
Your servant here, he has been told
to say it clear, to say it cold:
It's over, it ain't going
any further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
you feel the devil's riding crop
Get ready for the future:
it is murder
- Leonard Cohen
I raise my glass to the Awful Truth,
Which you can't reveal to the Ears of Youth,
Except to say it isn't worth a dime,
And the whole damn place goes crazy twice,
And it's once for the Devil and once for Christ
- Leonard Cohen
It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes.
This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers
- Terry Pratchett
He'd told her that the phrase deal with the Devil came from him; Ellie felt like she was on the verge of selling her soul.
- Kresley Cole
Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.
- Edwin Louis Cole
Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... you cannot shake hands with the Devil and not get sulphur on your sleeve.
- Nancy A Collins
The throbbing engines of the ship and its relentless passage onwards through the sea brought back to us the ever urgency of moving Time, and then we knew that neither they nor we would would ever find again on earth such happiness and full content of mind as all we had known in the Children's Hospital at Belsen Camp when the Devil had been banished and Love crowned king.
- Robert Collis
I had a very bad time with acid. I did that classic thing of looking in the mirror by mistake and seeing the devil. But I took it several times, because you always think that next time you might have the wonderful time that everyone else is having.
- Robbie Coltrane
The world is the devil's hunting-ground, and children are his choicest game.
- Anthony Comstock
Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.
- Sean Connery
I take it, no fool ever made a bargain for his soul with the devil; the fool is too much of a fool, or the devil too much of a devilI don't know which. Or you may be such a thunderingly exalted creature as to be altogether deaf and blind to anything but heavenly sights and sounds. Then the earth for you is only a standing placeand whether to be like this is your loss or your gain I won't pretend to say. But most of us are neither one nor the other.
- Joseph Conrad
When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart.
- Alice Cooper
I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake, I pray? And yet it has not the blue devils, but the blue angels in it, in the azure tint of its waters. The sun is alone, except in thick weather, when there sometimes appear to be two, but one is a mock sun. God is alone, - but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.
- Henry David Thoreau
God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.
- Henry David Thoreau
I will not through humility become the devil's attorney
- Henry David Thoreau
Facts from politicians are like Muligans from the devil - useless.
- Frank Coyle
It wasn't long before I had the urge to glance inside. I then had a slight moment of panic. Number one, Big John was walking out the door with a meat cleaver gleaming in his hand. Yes, a meat cleaver.
Number two, he was glaring at Caleb like he was the devil himself.
- Shelly Crane
A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.
- Edgar Allan Poe
This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful things and you imagine terrible things, and you take no responsibility for the choice. You say you have inside you both the power of good and the power of evil, the angel and the devil, but in truth you have just one thing inside you - the ability to imagine.
- Michael Crichton
We don't know the Devil's side of the story, because God wrote all the books.
- J A Konrath
Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
- Jennifer Crusie
Love ought to stop on both sides, don't you think, simultaneously?' He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake the sleepers. 'But it won't - that's the devil,' he added in the same undertone.
- Virginia Woolf
- Mark Twain
I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out.
- Red Adair
The Prince came to give life unto those whose lives were almost being snuffed out by the devil via the cares of this world.
- Jaachynma N E Agu
God is not a thief. That which steals, kills and destroys is the devil - not God!
- Jaachynma N E Agu
God made food; the devil the cooks.
- James Joyce
...you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong if, when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb: 'The devil is in the detail.' Remember that proverb and you'll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one.
- Paulo Coelho
You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.
- Paulo Coelho
The brave are those who make decisions despite their fear, who are tormented by the Devil every step of the way and gripped by anxiety about their every action, wondering if they are right or wrong. And yet nevertheless, they act.
- Paulo Coelho
What's worse...?
The devil you don't know... or the devil you do?
- Jodi Picoult
The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I drown him and every day he gnaws. Help me drown the worm, fellas.
- Nelson Algren
The devil is not as black as he is painted.
- Dante Alighieri
We don't know for certain that she's a warlock, Jessie," said Will.
Jessamine ignored him. "Is it dreadful, being so evil? Are you worried you'll go to hell?" She leaned closer to Tessa. "What do you think the Devil's like?"
Tessa set her fork down. "Would you like to meet him? I could summon him up in a trice if you like. Being a warlock, and all.
- Cassandra Clare
If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away
- Sarah Addison Allen
I'd bitch slap the devil for you.
- Janet Evanovich
Well, sure, but I don't bring God into it. I think shower massage might have been invented by the devil. God invented the missionary position.
- Janet Evanovich
Good thing he's dead," Lula said, "or that would have hurt like the devil.
- Janet Evanovich
Equations are the devil's sentences.
- Stephen Colbert
You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.
- Alexandre Dumas
Please, baby, you had to know the Devil would be well endowed.
- Debra Anastasia
Beckett smiled at his past and future customers with both his dimples. No need to feel alarmed, his smile told them. The devil always had the biggest welcome mat at his door.
- Debra Anastasia
The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?
- Maya Angelou
That is why we were drawn to one another and why we are brother and sister. I am going to teach you to dance and play and smile, and still not be happy. And you are going to teach me to think and to know and yet not be happy. Do you know that we are both children of the Devil?
- Hermann Hesse
With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
- Jean Anouilh
When the devil grows old he turns hermit.
- Ludovico Ariosto
Ah, Evie," she heard him say softly, "I must have a heart, after all...because right now it aches like the devil."
"Only your heart?" she asked ingenuously, making him laugh.
He lowered her to the bed, his eyes sparkling wickedly. "Also a few other things," he conceded. "And as my wife, it's your duty to ease all my aches.
- Lisa Kleypas
A lack of desire is something I've never experienced. I'd have to
be on my deathbed before I stopped wanting--
no, never mind, I was on my deathbed in
the not-too-distant past, and even then I had the devil's own itch for my wife.
-Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent
- Lisa Kleypas
Fear you?" she said without thinking. "Good God, I would never do that."
Easing her head back, Westcliff looked at her while a slow smile spread across his face. "No, you wouldn't," he agreed. "You'd spit in the devil's eye if it suited you.
- Lisa Kleypas
Woulda made a deal with the devil to get my wife and daughter back." He was still whispering and my breath stilled.
"Don't have that chance so nothin' I can do about that. But I darkened your door, baby, and you lit up my life again so I'm not lettin' that go.
- Kristen Ashley
The roof of the big top was dark blue, spangled with silver stars, and it reminded him of something but he couldn't think what, and then he realized it was the roof - the vault of heaven - in a side chapel at the Catholic church where his mother dragged them three times a day on Sunday when they were very small, until she ran out of energy and let the devil have them. (One Good Turn)
- Kate Atkinson
The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!
- Rowan Atkinson
More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?
- Margaret Atwood
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
- Thomas Carlyle
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
- Thomas Carlyle
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
- Francis Bacon
The devil can be a clown of prizes in moments like these. Moments of knowing you've ventured too far down the wrong path and all you can do is accept more prizes..
- J M August
The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
Don't be disheartened by the forces of evil. Nothing can happen that God hasn't allowed. Even resistance is all part of grand orchestration. The devil always has you right were God wants you.
- Steve Maraboli
If the universe does consist of a battle between the devil and God, the final analysis should conclude that religion would have been the devil's most brilliant move and science, God's.
- Steve Maraboli
This life is for loving, sharing, learning, smiling, caring, forgiving, laughing, hugging, helping, dancing, wondering, healing, and even more loving. I choose to live life this way. I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, 'aw shit, he's up!
- Steve Maraboli
I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, aw shit, he's up!
- Steve Maraboli
Grace-" He scowled, then laughed. "What the devil is your middle name?"
"Catriona." she whispered.
"Grace Catriona Eversleigh," he said, loud and sure, "I love you.
- Julia Quinn
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.
- Pearl Bailey
Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?
- Josephine Baker
With slouch and swing around the ring
We trod the Fools' Parade!
We did not care: we knew we were
The Devils' Own Brigade:
And shaven head and feet of lead
Make a merry masquerade.
- Oscar Wilde
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
- Hosea Ballou
Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print.
- Iain Banks
People talk and rumors follow," I said.
"Most people claim that only a person possessed of the devil could write such horror."
"And what do you think?"
"You are an angel to me, Eddy, but never bet the devil your head."
"That would make a great title for a story," I observed.
- Andrew Barger
Irony - The modern mode: either the devil's mark or the snorkel of sanity.
- Julian Barnes
You didn't think I was going to kill you that easily, did you? For what you did to her, you are going to suffer every second between now and dawn. I'm going to give you pain the likes of which my mama's people were famed for. And when I finally end your life, you will thank me for it." Sundown
"Go to hell!" Bart
"You already send me there. It's your turn now. Give the devil my regards." Sundown
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
You really are here. (Thanatos)
Hair of the dog, baby. Sooner or later, we all dance with the devil. Tonight, it's your turn. (Zarek)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
When you dance with the devil, you don't get to pick the tune.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
You know, I've never understood it. They make a deal with the devil herself and then expect me to bail them out of every minor scrape. Then when I show up to help them, they cop an attitude and tell me to blow. So if I'm selfish for wanting four days a year to be left alone, then I'm just a selfish bastard. Sue me. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
So if the punks come here, they're going to dance with the devil and get the short end of the horn. (Zarek)
No one better than my Zarek to rip someone's head off. You two should get along famously. (Astrid)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Even the Devil may cry when he looks around Hell and realizes he's alone.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
You don't knock on the devil's door, boy, unless you want him to answer. (Ravyn)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Should we start making preparations here? (Tory)
Punk-ass won't come to my island! He knows better. You don't tap on the Devil's shoulder unless you're willing to dance to his tune. (Savitar)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Boy, you knock on the devil's door and he will head slam you through the wall.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Trust me, baby. Everyone wants someone they can hold and love. Someone who will be there to help pick up the pieces when everything falls apart. Sin is no different from anyone else. If you have any care for Sin at all, don't leave him in the darkness. It's not fair to show someone the sun and then banish him from it. Even the devil may cry when looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
What was it Grandpa used to say? 'You may pawn your soul to the devil, but the good Lord will always bail you out?' (Zeke)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Intentions don't matter. It's the end result we're all judged by. Evil in the name of good is still evil. And when you dance with the devil, you seldom get to pick the tune.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Marry me, Abigail, and I swear this time, curse or no curse, I will make it to that damned altar. Even if I drag the devil with me to be there on time. Sundown
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Whoever was responsible for his death would pay and the devil in him would demand double the interest. (Nathan)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
It's not fair to show someone the sun and then banish him from it. Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone. -Acheron
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Ectoplasmic plane? What the devil is that? (Simone)
It's jargon from those of us who are corporeally challenged. It's the great beyond where we bounce into each other like floundering atoms. It's really kind of gross which is why I hang out with you. But only because you're less gross than they are. (Jesse)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
So you do have more fight in you. (Thanatos)
Looks like the devil just hiked his ass up to Alaska to see the snow. C'mon, punk, let's dance. (Zarek)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
If there is Predestination, then God is the devil.
by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor
- Mary Ann Shaffer
The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world that he did not exist.
- Charles Baudelaire
The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist.
- Charles Baudelaire
the Devil's hand directs our every move - / the things we loathed become the things we love
- Charles Baudelaire
It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance
- Charles Baudelaire
The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;
We find delight in the most loathsome things;
Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,
And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.
- Charles Baudelaire
A church debt is the devil's salary.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.
- Anne Baxter
The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit.
- Michael Bay
There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.
- Peter S Beagle
He was a cat of double personality - or else, as Susan vowed, he was possessed by the devil.
- L M Montgomery
Liza had a finely developed sense of sin Idleness was a sin, and card playing, which was a kind of idleness to her. She was suspicious of fun whether it involved dancing or singing or even laughter. She felt that people having a good time were wide open to the devil. And this was a shame, for Samuel was a laughing man, but I guess Samuel was wide open to the devil. His wife protected him whenever she could.
- John Steinbeck
The devil knows that if the elders of Israel should ever wake up, they could step forth and help preserve freedom and extend the gospel. Therefore the devil has concentrated, and to a large extent successfully, in neutralizing much of the priesthood. He has reduced them to Sleeping Giants.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Today the devil as a wolf in supposedly a new suit of sheep's clothing is enticing some men to parrot his line by advocating planned government guaranteed security at the expense of our liberties.
- Ezra Taft Benson
There are times when you simply have to righteous hang on and outlast the devil.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Theology is the logic of the Devil.
- Jose Bergamin
To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
- Jose Bergamin
It is as evil as we are positive...the more desperately we try to be good and wonderful and perfect, the more the Shadow develops a definite will to be black and evil and destructive... The fact is that if one tries beyond one's capacity to be perfect, the Shadow descends to hell and becomes the devil.
- Haruki Murakami
Satan is too hard a master. He would never command as did the Other with divine simplicity: 'Do likewise.' The devil will have no victims resemble him. He permits only a rough caricature, impotent, abject, which has to serve as food for eternal irony, the mordant irony of the depths. -- Diary of a Country Priest
- Georges Bernanos
Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.
- Thomas Bernhard
If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?
- Wendell Berry
Near below peak of mount Merbabu in Java,
there is a forest known as the devil market.
I had been there once. And when you are there,
you will sense the crowd, voices of nothingness.
Your mind will say it is just accustics effect of the nature,
but your heart will tell you something totally different.
- Toba Beta
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
- Ambrose Bierce
Gossip is the Devil's radio.
- George Harrison
The Id and the Superego are more scientific ways of considering the Devil and God, or your personal angels and demons. Science has turned the relationship between God, the Devil and you into a viewpoint for all to understand without the framework of religious belief to sidetrack the layperson into another realm of thinking.
- Stephen Biro
Who knew that the devil had a factory where he made millions of fossils, which his minions distributed throughout the earth, in order to confuse my tiny brain?
- Lewis Black
Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.
- Holly Black
To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!
Up and down that narrow hall they danced, the women on each side of him, to the wildest measure he had ever imagined, yet which he dimly, dreadfully remembered, till the lamp on the wall flickered and went out, and they were left in total darkness. And the devil woke in his heart with a thousand vile suggestions and made him afraid.
- Algernon Blackwood
God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.
- William Peter Blatty
Dr Sass...maintained that in paradise, until the time of the fall, the whole world was flat, the back-curtain of the Lord, and that it was the devil who invented a third dimension. Thus are the words 'straight', 'square', and 'flat' the words of noblemen, but the apple was an orb, and the sin of our first parents, the attempt at getting around God. I myself much prefer the art of painting to sculpture
- Karen Blixen
Thomas More:...And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast--man's laws, not God's--and if you cut them down...d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
- Robert Bolt
The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.
- Thomas More
First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.
- Edward Bond
If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.
- Corrie Ten Boom
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
- William Shakespeare
Tis too much provedthat with devotion's visage
And pious action we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
- William Shakespeare
What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
- William Shakespeare
LEONATO
Well, then, go you into hell?
BEATRICE
No, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long.
- William Shakespeare
Zounds, sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you...I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are making the beast with two backs.
- William Shakespeare
O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!
- William Shakespeare
The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek.
- William Shakespeare
Refrain to-night;
And that shall lend a kind of easiness
To the next abstinence, the next more easy;
For use almost can change the stamp of nature,
And either master the devil or throw him out
With wondrous potency.
- William Shakespeare
We are oft to blame in this, -
'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage,
and pios action we do sugar o'er
the devil himself.
- William Shakespeare
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd, old ends stol'n out of holy writ,
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
- William Shakespeare
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
- William Shakespeare
In nature there's no blemish but the mind;
None can be called deformed but the unkind:
Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil
Are empty trunks, o'erflourished by the devil.
- William Shakespeare
The devil take order! I'll to the throng:
Let life be short, else shame will be too long.
- William Shakespeare
My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil drives.
- William Shakespeare
Logic is what the devil likes most.
- Kelly Braffet
Increase Mather, President of Harvard University, in his treatise on Remarkable Providences, insists that the smell of herbs alarms the Devil and that medicine expels him. Such beliefs have probably even now not wholly disappeared from among us.
- James Henry Breasted
If a hole in your wall is large enough for a rat to get his head in, rats will soon take over your home. If there is a hole in your heart large enough for the devil to get his head in, he'll waste no time moving in too. (from book number 3- coming soon in the Carolina Rain series)
- Nancy B Brewer
I don't count that relationship with Ricky. It's just like a blip at this point. I had to fall in love with the devil himself to get this sweet angel, Jack.
- Christie Brinkley
Peter had two short swords strapped on his back, the belts crisscrossing his chest bandito style. A black splash of war paint covered his face, and his golden eyes gleamed out from the paint. He pulled his swords free, clanged them together, and all the Devils lined up on either side of him. (the Child Thief)
- Brom
And Peter laughed, and when he did, all the Devils grinned, because Peter's laugh was a most contagious thing.
- Brom
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?"
- Rudyard Kipling
Lucky Tyler: "Yeah, you're here, looking more like the preacher's wife come calling than an overnight alibi. Who's gonna believe I tumbled you?" The devil in him was kicking up his heels, goading him to say things he knew damn well would rub her the wrong way. But he felt he was justified in being ornery. He didn't particularly like her attitude either.
Devon Haines:"What did you expect me to wear? A negligee?"
Lucky Tyler: "I----
- Sandra Brown
Sometimes the scariest things in life aren't the Vampires and the Werewolves, sometimes there are things even God doesn't want to know about. Which is why he created the Devil's Roses.
- Tara Brown
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
- Robert Burton
Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.
- Jean De La Fontaine
Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.
- Bill Bryson
The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has..
- E A Bucchianeri
Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Anarchy loves theatre. That's the whole point. People forget that. You have to laugh at the devil, not fight him. They'll always have more guns, they'll always have more bombs that go off with a bigger bang. No matter how revolting you become they'll always be willing to be more revolting to you. They've had so much more practice.
- Melvin Burgess
When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.
- James Lee Burke
I see my discourse leaves you cold;
Dear kids, I do not take offense;
Recall: the Devil, he is old,
Grow old yourselves, and he'll make sense!
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well,
He hardly will be caught a second time.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
As he came leaping in, the poodle did not heed it.
The matter now seems turned about;
The Devil's in the house and can't get out.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
- William Ralph Inge
Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
- Gary Busey
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
- Samuel Butler
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
- Samuel Butler
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
- Albert Einstein
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
- William Hazlitt
I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.
- Gabriel Byrne
The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
- Voltaire
God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.
- Voltaire
Eve: She told me last!
Shane: Boyfriend!
Michael: Landlord!
Eve: Crap. Right. Next time you sell your soul to the devil, I get first contact!
- Rachel Caine
Here, kitty, kitty, Chico says. The cover of his cage is still on, making his tiny clown voice slightly muffled. I feel bad for him under there, just waiting to start his evil little day...Freud walks toward Chico in his slinky fashion, sits under his cage and just stares. We have satanic pets...our pets seem to have made a pact with the devil.
- Deb Caletti
I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.
- Maria Callas
The devil takes us to the top of an exceeding high mountain and makes us dizzy; but God lets us look at the mountain.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can't play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
They used to call the devil the father of lies. But for someone whose sin is meant to be pride, you'd think that lying would leave something of a sour taste. So my theory is that when the devil wants to get something out of you, he doesn't lie at all. He tells you the exact, literal truth. And he lets you find your own way to hell.
- Mike Carey
When God has abandoned you and the devil is snapping at your heels, what you really need on your side is a bigger devil.
- Mike Carey
St. Bernard said, 'Every word one writes smites the Devil.
- Lillian Stewart Carl
Never let the brain idle. 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop.' And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.
- George Carlin
I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.
- Jim Carrey
That, I realized, is the great beauty of dreams: the devil may inevitably find a way to jerk you off, but you can always wake up before he makes you cum.
- Jim Carroll
They say there's an ointment the Devil gives you that turns you into a wolf the minute you rub it on.
- Angela Carter
Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you.
- Angela Carter
As my lawyer dad would say, I had breached a contract with the devil.
- Elle Casey
Nefarious purposes translation: For disgusting demon sex and the birth of the Devil incarnate. Nice.
- Elle Casey
something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil..
- Ana Castillo
The demons of the Devil don't use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones. If you're rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you're loyal and faithful, they turn those against you. If you're passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears. Your weak weaknesses are no use to them.... They find the strongest weaknesses you didn't know were yours and use those against you.
- Aidan Chambers
Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.
- Oswald Chambers
Neutral men are the devil's allies.
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Lydia: What the devil do you mean by creeping up on me? You're suppose to be in a brothel.
Vere: I lied. I can't believe you fell for the old going-to-a-brothel ruse. You didn't even look out the window to make sure I'd gone away.
- Loretta Chase
The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
- Stephen King
The devil you knew was always preferable to the devil you didn't.
- Stephen King
so here he sits one drunk nigger in a puclic libary after closing, with the book open in front of me and the bottle of Old Kentucky on my left. 'Tell the truth and shame the devil,' my mom used to say , but she forgot to tell me that sometimes you can't shame Mr Splitfoot sober. The Irish know, but of course they're God's white niggers and who knows maybe they're a step ahead.
- Stephen King
Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.
- C J Cherryh
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
- Winston Churchill
I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested--'But these impulses may be from below, not from above.' I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live them from the devil.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
- Lydia M Child
However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness, and caprice.
- Emil Cioran
Good defeats evil most of the times, but sometimes in order to defeat the devil you must first become his disciple
- Gaiven Clairmont
["The Devil in the Dark"] impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn.
- Arthur C Clarke
I'm pretty, but I'm not beautiful.
I'm sin, but I'm not the devil.
I'm good, but I'm not an angel.
I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
- Marilyn Monroe
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker.
- Marilyn Monroe
Im pretty, but im not beautiful. I sin, but im not the devil. Im good, but im not an angel.
- Marilyn Monroe
May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
- Jean Cocteau
Your servant here, he has been told
to say it clear, to say it cold:
It's over, it ain't going
any further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
you feel the devil's riding crop
Get ready for the future:
it is murder
- Leonard Cohen
I raise my glass to the Awful Truth,
Which you can't reveal to the Ears of Youth,
Except to say it isn't worth a dime,
And the whole damn place goes crazy twice,
And it's once for the Devil and once for Christ
- Leonard Cohen
It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes.
This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers
- Terry Pratchett
He'd told her that the phrase deal with the Devil came from him; Ellie felt like she was on the verge of selling her soul.
- Kresley Cole
Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.
- Edwin Louis Cole
Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... you cannot shake hands with the Devil and not get sulphur on your sleeve.
- Nancy A Collins
The throbbing engines of the ship and its relentless passage onwards through the sea brought back to us the ever urgency of moving Time, and then we knew that neither they nor we would would ever find again on earth such happiness and full content of mind as all we had known in the Children's Hospital at Belsen Camp when the Devil had been banished and Love crowned king.
- Robert Collis
I had a very bad time with acid. I did that classic thing of looking in the mirror by mistake and seeing the devil. But I took it several times, because you always think that next time you might have the wonderful time that everyone else is having.
- Robbie Coltrane
The world is the devil's hunting-ground, and children are his choicest game.
- Anthony Comstock
Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.
- Sean Connery
I take it, no fool ever made a bargain for his soul with the devil; the fool is too much of a fool, or the devil too much of a devilI don't know which. Or you may be such a thunderingly exalted creature as to be altogether deaf and blind to anything but heavenly sights and sounds. Then the earth for you is only a standing placeand whether to be like this is your loss or your gain I won't pretend to say. But most of us are neither one nor the other.
- Joseph Conrad
When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart.
- Alice Cooper
I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake, I pray? And yet it has not the blue devils, but the blue angels in it, in the azure tint of its waters. The sun is alone, except in thick weather, when there sometimes appear to be two, but one is a mock sun. God is alone, - but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.
- Henry David Thoreau
God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.
- Henry David Thoreau
I will not through humility become the devil's attorney
- Henry David Thoreau
Facts from politicians are like Muligans from the devil - useless.
- Frank Coyle
It wasn't long before I had the urge to glance inside. I then had a slight moment of panic. Number one, Big John was walking out the door with a meat cleaver gleaming in his hand. Yes, a meat cleaver.
Number two, he was glaring at Caleb like he was the devil himself.
- Shelly Crane
A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.
- Edgar Allan Poe
This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful things and you imagine terrible things, and you take no responsibility for the choice. You say you have inside you both the power of good and the power of evil, the angel and the devil, but in truth you have just one thing inside you - the ability to imagine.
- Michael Crichton
We don't know the Devil's side of the story, because God wrote all the books.
- J A Konrath
Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
- Jennifer Crusie
Love ought to stop on both sides, don't you think, simultaneously?' He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake the sleepers. 'But it won't - that's the devil,' he added in the same undertone.
- Virginia Woolf
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