Failure Quote by John Steinbeck

“Tell the devil I said hey when you get back to where you're from.”

— Bruno Mars

“Never mind speak of the devil — I couldn’t even think of him or he’d appear.”

— Staci Hart

“When in a foreign country, he thought, you are behind a fence, or in a cell - everything is going on around you but…

— Penelope Lively

“I am an inveterate buffoon, and been from birth up, your reverence, it's as though it were a craze in me. I dare say…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Do not be devilish.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“...did you have parents or did the devil just create you from some spare parts?”

— Jennifer Loren

“There was his father, looking totally different but exactly the same. “Hey, son,” his dad said, his voice bending in that weird way that…

— Patrick Ness

“She means the devil with people who say you're anything but what you are.”

— Octavia Butler

“My mother used to say, better the devil you know than the one you don’t. I say, if you’re living with the devil, kick…

— Christine Feehan

“I remember that’s the way he was before we came out here. But then it was as if we’d come to a magic country…

— Donna Leon

“We may have done what the devil said we did, but we are NOT who the devil says we are!”

— April Cofield Essix

“You really don’t like your father, do you?” He glowered. “Let’s just say he would have eaten me if my mother hadn’t been nearly…

— Dave Ferraro