Awful Quote by John Milton

Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is,…

— John Milton

“He wasn't at all what she had imagined. Tall, yes- but not plain, not dependable, not kind. Not by any stretch of fancy. The…

— Laura Kinsale

“He was a good-hearted man when he was sober, but a perfect fiend when he was drunk, or rather when he was half drunk,…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“You talk of her mind being unsettled. How the devil could it be otherwise in her frightful isolation? And that insipid, paltry creature attending…

— Emily Brontë

...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has inflicted on…

— W. Somerset Maugham

There was hell in her eyes! She was worn and jaded Her soul is at war with the life she has led. As I…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“She alone was left standing, amid the accumulated riches of her mansion, while a host of men lay stricken at her feet. Like those…

— Emile Zola

The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers…

— William Hazlitt

It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens.…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“Ah, but it wasn’t just her lovely face that haunted him. Nor the soft, lush body he was increasingly desperate to see liberated from…

— Tessa Dare

It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment.

— Stephen Crane

“he was helpless against his own devilish nature when it came to this girl”

— Julia Quinn