Devil Quotes

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God made food; the devil the cooks. — James Joyce
something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil... — Ana Castillo
Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones...you are invited! — Anthony Burgess
One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest. — Anne Rice
In a way he made me think of a child doll, with briliant faintly red-brown glass eyes - a doll that had been found in… — Anne Rice
Curses of vanished elders echoed down on me; too pretty, too soft, too pale, eyes far too full of the Devil, ah, that devilish smile — Anne Rice
All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word. — Martin Luther
I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides… — Daphne du Maurier
Readers are advised to remember the devil is a liar. — C.S. Lewis
When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out… — Barbara Kingsolver
They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is… — William Shakespeare
I do not think you are in any danger of starving," Maximus said. "The surgeon said only two weeks ago that you are too fat."… — Naomi Novik
The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music… — Martin Luther
Tell him, we are not devils but we have friends who are. — Philip Pullman
He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites...He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into… — C.S. Lewis
There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil. — Graham Greene
I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBoisâ€™s learning and Baldwinâ€™s… — Barack Obama

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