Devil Quotes
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We are commanded to have only one enemy, the devil. With him never be reconciled! But with a brother, never be at enmity in thy heart.
John Chrysostom -
The good conscience is an invention of the devil.
Albert Schweitzer
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The city of angels? It's the city of devils. The city of smiling cobras.
Sean Young -
That there is a Devil is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influence of the Devil. For any to deny the being of a Devil must be from ignorance or profaneness worse than diabolical.
Cotton Mather -
One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before any house of God was builded, the devil got his restraining engine.
Alice Morse Earle -
When told by a constituent that he would rather vote for the devil, Wilkes responded: 'Naturally.' He then added: 'And if your friend decides against standing, can I count on your vote?'
John Wilkes -
A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
John Webster -
I appeal to the philosophers of all countries to unite and never again mention Heidegger or talk to another philosopher who defends Heidegger. This man was a devil. I mean, he behaved like a devil to his beloved teacher, and he has a devilish influence on Germany. … One has to read Heidegger in the original to see what a swindler he was.
Karl Popper
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Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.
Cotton Mather -
Children are arrows in a quiver, and they are to be trained as missionaries and shot at the Devil.
Jim Elliot -
I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.
Jada Pinkett Smith -
I would have worked with the devil himself if he'd been for the six hour day and worker control of the hiring hall.
Harry Bridges -
With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.
William Gurnall
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For the devil had long ago taken a shine to Tert Card, filled him like a cream horn with itch and irritation. His middle initial was X. Face like cottage cheese clawed with a fork.
Annie Proulx -
I was a whole new human being, he said of this transformation. I liked people, they liked me. It was like an exorcism, kicking the devil outta me!
Jack LaLanne -
The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.
W. Somerset Maugham -
We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.
James Gleick -
God's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything.
R. A. Torrey -
To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god.
Kane Morgan
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Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by His heroic spirit: to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils.
William Gurnall -
Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.
Taylor Hackford -
We've got to help each other, seeing as God doesn't help us. Do you see how great Jesus' idea was? Imagine how much it must have irritated God. Forget the devil, Jesus was the only true enemy of God, and he's the only friend us poor wretches have.
Umberto Eco -
A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.
Saint Augustine