Devil Quotes

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A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil. — Criss Jami
Once when I looked up, I happened to see a sea eagle poised on magesterial wings above the knurled summit of the mountain behind my… — Lawrence Millman
Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil. — Hermann Hesse
Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral… — Henry David Thoreau
And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it." MARTIN LUTHER,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man… — C.S. Lewis
If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you… — C.S. Lewis
I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturiÃ¨re - a real devil. — Coco Chanel
Who shall say that those poor peasants were not acting in the spirit we most venerate, most adore; that theirs was not the true heart… — James Anthony Froude
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires. — John Dryden
And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind. — John Dryden
Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his… — James Ellis
If not reason, then the devil. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God. — Bill Vaughan
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it. — Ben Jonson
Doubt is brother-devil to Despair. — John Boyle O'Reilly
You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He cannot… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Oresteia, King Lear, Dostoevsky's The Devils no less than the art of Giotto or the Passions of Bach, inquire into, dramatize, the relations of… — George Steiner
I think being called a she-devil by a trial lawyer is meant as a compliment. — Ann Coulter

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