Devil Quotes
2117 quotes by 1328 authors
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Why should the devil have all the best tunes?
— William Booth
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At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.
— Martin Luther
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O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil....O God, that men should put…
— William Shakespeare
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Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and…
— Margery Allingham
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How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on…
— W.C. Fields
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Every country must have its own devil. Welshland its own, and France its own. Our German devil will be a good wind-pipe, and must be…
— Martin Luther
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We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen away, and to bring home those who have lost their way. Many who…
— Francis of Assisi
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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward…
— Walt Whitman
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Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil.
— William Shakespeare
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for…
— Moliere
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Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin,…
— Saint Augustine
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It may be a blessing in disguise...Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. Haitians were…
— Pat Robertson
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...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.
— Malcolm X
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as…
— Martin Luther
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Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which…
— Martin Luther
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Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to being little devils;…
— Bertrand Russell
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
— Tennessee Williams
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If God is all-powerful, then the Devil must be nothing more than a darkness in the mind of God. But if the Devil is something…
— Tad Williams
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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