Best 1646 quotes in «devil quotes» category

It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's favorite beverage. The tobacco and whiskey, though heavily taxed, they clung to with the tenacity of the devil-fish.

It was necessary that the Devil should have a representation upon the Earth, as well as God.

It wouldn't make for sanity would it, living with the devil.

I used to watch a lot of documentaries about Satanic possession - and I don't know if this is racist or not - but in the documentaries, it never happened to Americans! It was always happening in Central America or South America; that's where the priest was always going down to exorcise possessed people. So I didn't have a lot of fear of being possessed by the devil.

I used to say to myself, 'What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe?' And I'd answer, 'Everything, everything,' and I'd walk slowly and turn my head slowly as if I were a queen.

I've always said it's interesting to watch devils cry when angels want to stab you in the back. I like that mixture.

I’ve done made a deal with the devil.

I've gone through three changes- I thought I was a Christian then I was the devil then the third one, where I know who I am you know I feel like I'm an alien.

I've got the blues in my heart, and the devil in my fingers.

I've never been insulted by hateful satanists for not believing in their devil. Only by loving Christians for not believing in their God.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.

I was always rather nasty. I was willing to be friends with the Devil, just to cross the bridge.

I want to be one of the artists in the cathedral on the great plain. I want to make a dragon's head, an angel, a devil - or perhaps a saint - out of stone.

I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.

I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière - a real devil.

I was born with the devil in me,' [Holmes] wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.

I wanted to go back on 'Dancing With the Stars,' I did it. One of my favorite shows is 'Hawaii Five-0.' I went on, guest starred. I wanted to be in a film, did 'Tasmanian Devils' in Vancouver. Wanted to host a show, boom, did it.

I was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up quagmires and to open and make straight paths. If I must have some failing let me rather speak the truth with too great sincerity than once to act the hypocrite and conceal the truth.

I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

I went with an exorcist for a bit. I just want to know really practical things, like how do you hold someone possessed by the devil.

I went there anyway-knowingly, willingly-because I wanted a number one hit. I wanted what Metallica had, even if it meant selling a piece of my soul to the devil.

I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend.

Jam on a winter took away the blue devils. It was like tasting summer.

Jared told her he used to be an exotic dancer in San Francisco.' 'My body is a gift from God,' Jared said gravely. 'Except for my hips, which are clearly a gift from the devil.

Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged.

Jesus defeated satan in Gethsemane on the cross, not by directly confronting the devil, but by fulfilling the destiny to which He had been called. The greatest battle that was ever won was accomplished by the apparent death of the victor, without even a word of rebuke to His adversary!

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil

Keeping vigil over her are two monsters of very different breeds but monster just the same. Death on her left. Devil on her right.

Keep your foot on the devil's neck by standing on the Word of God, and you will see tremendous results!

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.

Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.

Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

Liberals can always be trusted to see God in Mumia Abu-Jamal and the devil in the Pope.

Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.

Let us never yield to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.

Lust is the devil's counterfeit for love. There is nothing more beautiful on earth than a pure love and there is nothing so blighting as lust.

Liquor is the kiss of the angels as well as the curse of the devil. It can conceal but also can reveal

Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake the sleepers. ‘But it won’t - that’s the devil,’ he added in the same undertone.

Luscious, aren't I, poppet? Go on, stare. I don't mind.” -“You look like a Dracula porn movie reject” -“Let‟s not speak of him. Like the devil, Vlad might appear if we do.” Denise & Ian

Make happiness a habit. Be so happy you drive the devil stark-raving mad.

Like an explorer returned from a distant planet or another dimension, Suki Kim has many extraordinary tales to tell, among them how different--and how awful--life is for those who live in North Korea. The devil is in the details here, for her gritty narrative focuses on everyday events to reveal how repression shapes daily life, even for the most privileged. Yet Kim also bears witness to that part of the human soul that no oppressor can ever claim.

Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.