Devil Quotes

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Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop… — William Shakespeare
The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that… — Eric Hoffer
Words have ruined more souls than any devil's agency. — Eric Hoffer
ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an… — Ambrose Bierce
For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do… — Martin Luther
The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood. — Martin Luther
It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty. — Victor Hugo
The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was… — William Blake
Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil. — Jean de La Fontaine
God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God… — William Cowper
Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private. — Alexander Pope
Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor… — Alexander Pope
What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly. — John Heywood
I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan; He is not ugly, and is not lame, But… — Heinrich Heine
It is the devil's masterstroke to get us to accuse him — George Meredith
But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those… — William Carlos Williams
Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives… — Claude Monet
Boards of public charity were invented by the devil to prevent real individual charity. — Austin O'Malley
I've said it before: equations are the devil's sentences. The worst one is that quadratic equation, an infernal salad of numbers, letters, and symbols. — Stephen Colbert
Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball. — Emo Philips

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