Devilish Quotes

45 quotes by 44 authors

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a… — W. E. B. Du Bois
To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business. — Leo Tolstoy
There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep. — W. Somerset Maugham
There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish. — Bruce R. McConkie
The devil's most devilish when respectable. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It is better to give love. Hatred is a low and degrading motion and is so poisonous that no man is strong enough to use… — Thomas Dreier
The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the… — H. L. Mencken
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The… — Mark Twain
That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that… — Henry David Thoreau
Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put… — Martin Luther
Little sins carry with them but little temptations to sin, and then a man shews most viciousness and unkindness, when he sins on a little… — Thomas Brooks
Whenever I may be tempted to slack up and let the business run for awhile on its own impetus, I picture my competitor sitting at… — Harry Gordon Selfridge
It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being… — John Masefield
The most devilish thing is 8 times 8 and 7 times 7 it is what nature itselfe cant endure. — Marjorie Fleming
Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. Whatever its momentary and alluring guise, pride is the enemy,… — Neal A. Maxwell
I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is. — Amanda Plummer
Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material things. They have… — Herbert Hoover
All things from the north are devilish. — Philip Pullman
The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in… — Sonya Levien
Whenever God looks devilish, I see the philosopher fail. — Kedar Joshi

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