Art Quote by Thomas Carlyle

The devil's most devilish when respectable.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues,…

— Blaise Pascal

“Respectability is a curse; it is an "evil" that corrodes the mind and heart. It creeps upon one unknowingly and destroys love.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I look upon the vulgar observation, 'That the devil often deserts his friends, and leaves them in the lurch,' to be a great abuse…

— Henry Fielding

“I believe the devil exists in those little, seemingly unnoticeable moments when we choose to value our own insecurities over the service of others.”

— Chris Matakas

The devil's name is dullness.

— Robert E. Lee

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

— Walter Lippmann

The Devil endeavours by every means to keep men in error, in the enticement of the passions, in darkness of mind and heart; in…

— John of Kronstadt

I have more respect for the devil than for some preachers I have met; the devil believes the Bible is the Word of God!

— Billy Sunday

Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.

— Jonathan Edwards