Best 1646 quotes in «devil quotes» category

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.

But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.

But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.

But we can't alibi all our ills by just knocking the old banker. First he loaned the money, then the people all at once wanted it back, and he didn't have it. Now he's got it again, and is afraid to loan it, so the poor devil don't know what to do.

But when feminists suggest that God might be a She without suggesting that the Devil might also be female, they must be opposed.

Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils.

Can't you just keep your big mouth shut?" Brian said furiously to Nan. He pointed to Chrestomanci. "How do we know he's safe? For all we know, he could be the devil that you summoned up!" "Oh, you flatter me, Brian," Chrestomanci said.

Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in.

Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.

Cats are the tigers of us poor devils.

Charlie whistled "Amazing Grace" as he drove. It was all I could do not to whip my head around and snap, Are you kidding me? Couldn't he pick something more appropriate, like "Shout at the Devil" or "Don't fear the Reaper"? Some people had no sense of the proper music for a kidnapping.

Children are arrows in a quiver, and they are to be trained as missionaries and shot at the Devil.

Charlie Studd has written me a delightful letter... He thinks the Chinese language was invented by the devil to prevent the Chinese from ever hearing the Gospel properly.

Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.

Christ heals with more ease than any other. Christ makes the devil go out with a word (Mark 9:25). Nay, he can cure with a look: Christ's look melted Peter into repentance; it was a healing look. If Christ doth but cast a look upon the soul he can recover it. Therefore David prays to have a look from God, 'Look Thou upon me, and be merciful unto me' (Psalm 119:132).

Christianity is alone in thinking that sex is entirely the Devil's business and an offence to God, This is a strange doctrine and almost implies that God and the devil must have collaborated on the creation of humanity, God working above the belly button and the Devil below.

Christ sayeth not, Abstain from the flesh, from marrying, from housekeeping, etc., as  the Papists teach, for that were even to invite the devil and all his fellows to a feast.

Christ's enemies are but breaking their own heads in pieces, upon the Rock laid in Zion; and the stone is not removed out of its place. Faith hath cause to take courage from our very afflictions; the devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints. I know that he but heweth and polisheth stones, all this time, for the new Jerusalem.

Come, let us sing a psalm, and drive away the devil.

Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest.

Complaint is a prayer to the devil.

Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones...you are invited!

Complaints are prayers to the devil.

Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil

Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never imagine what the devil people think computers can add to the horrors.

conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.

Consider that the devil doesn't sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways.

Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment, or by hating them, as convinced men have hated, say, Darwin and Freud, as agents of some devil.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.

Cows are the Devil's handmaidens.

Curses of vanished elders echoed down on me; too pretty, too soft, too pale, eyes far too full of the Devil, ah, that devilish smile

Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible... then may the Devil take you!

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.

Death is not regarded as a natural affair by primitive man. Death is believed to be due to the intervention of some malevolent or at least not well disposed power. Normally it should not take place. So we have all through history crude explanations of death, as e.g., the influence of the serpent, the devil, sin.

Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord.

Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.

Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

Devils used to be God's angels that fell from the top. There is no diversity cos we're burnin in the melting pot.

Devil, you've got me all in a whirl. I'm wise to your game.

Diamanda Galás, the avant-weird performance artist... 'The devil's wife,' someone calls her. Faith No More loves Diamanda Galás.

Devils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours.

Devils don't come from hell beneath us, they come from the sky.

Devil wanted to play cricket. So Ravindra Jadeja was born.

Division within a Christian community is a very grave sin; it is the work of the devil.

Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.

does you costume involve leather?" she'd asked. and he'd said, "Actually, yeah, it might." it really did. it involved a leather dog collar, leather pants and a leash, and the leash was held by Ysandre, who was in skintight red rubber, from neck to knee high boots. she'd topped it off with a pair of devil horns and a red tridant. she'd made Shane her dog, complete with furry dog mask. ***"Breathe," Myrnin said. "I'm not much for it myself, but i hear it's quite good for humans."***

Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?

Doesn't the devil live forever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any person wearing mourning for the devil?

Don't blame me. The devil made me do it, and the Lord said you have to forgive.