Devil Quotes
2117 quotes by 1328 authors
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I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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It's not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,' said Simmons. 'Everyone knows you don't fight like a gentleman.' 'That might be called an oxymoron,' Ramses…
— Barbara Mertz
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Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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I had such plans for this evening. The pursuit of blind drunkenness and wayward women was my goal. But alas, it was not to be.…
— Cassandra Clare
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God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.
— Voltaire
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The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in so…
— Joseph Campbell
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Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.
— Christopher Pike
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If the Devil says you cannot pray when you are angry, tell him it is none of his business, and pray until that species of…
— Brigham Young
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Intentions don't matter. It's the end result we're all judged by. Evil in the name of good is still evil. And when you dance with…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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You don't believe in God, Rachel. You don't believe in goodness or love or mercy, do you?" "I haven't seen enough to form an opinion."…
— Anne Stuart
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Everything had come into sharp focus : his smooth words, his black, glinting eyes, his broad experience with lies, seduction, women. I'd fallen in love…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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What's worse ...? The devil you don't know ... or the devil you do?
— Jodi Picoult
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I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know…
— Brandon Sanderson
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Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the…
— Angela Carter
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Sometimes a deal with the devil is better than no deal at all.
— Lawrence Hill
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In one universe, they are gorgeous, straight-teethed, long-legged, wrapped in designer fashions, and given sports cars on their sixteenth birthdays. Teacher smile at them and…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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The devil follows me day and night because he is afraid to be alone.
— Francis Picabia
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Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us- by that God we both…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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From my stone pillow I have dreamed dreams of the mortal world above. I have heard its voices, its new music, as lullabies as I…
— Anne Rice
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