Devil Quotes

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I am a believer in angels, though not the picture-book kind with wings and harps. Such angelic accoutrements seem as nonsensical to me as devils… — Richard Paul Evans
There is a falsehood that some are born with an attraction to their own kind, with nothing they can do about it. They are just… — Boyd K. Packer
The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar... — Robertson Davies
Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels. — George Sand
IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices. — Ambrose Bierce
[Believers] have joy and comfort-that joy that angels cannot give, and devils cannot take. — Christopher Fowler
Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him "all the kingdoms… — John Owen
He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. — Herman Melville
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… — W. Somerset Maugham
In his book Modern Times, the historian Paul Johnson referred to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini as the three devils of the twentieth century. Interestingly, Nietzshean… — Ravi Zacharias
When you don't pray, the devil rides ya when ya sleep — Lil Boosie
Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part,… — C.S. Lewis
If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once." — Sydney J. Harris
God show me the way because the Devil trying to break me down — Kanye West
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil. — Berthold Auerbach
There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private. — Alexander Pope
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. — Jonathan Swift
What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of… — Thomas Carlyle
The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's… — James M. Barrie
'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper… — George Herbert

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