Best 1646 quotes in «devil quotes» category

His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.

However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.

How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!

Humility is the only thing that no devil can imitate.

Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.

I admit that I ain't no angel, I admit that I ain't no saint - I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they're so hard to find.

I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker.

I am an idle devil. But at least I work at it.

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not a devil, either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.

I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

I believe in God, and I certainly believe in the devil. There's certainly a devil, and he knows my name.

I can honestly say that in The Murder City Devils band we achieved everything that I could've ever hoped for or wanted. We did all that, which is the luckiest, craziest, and weirdest thing. Essentially, it was sort of like my dream come true in a way, so once that's happened, you sort of stop being surprised.

I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done

I could care less about what people think. I'm a Devil Without A Cause.

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I've got to be going forward all the time.

I constantly have a devil on my shoulder telling me that what I'm doing is really horrible, and then somehow the lightning strike happens and everything comes together. I've just realized I have to live with that devil on my shoulder a little bit more.

I crawled in the bathroom, looked in the mirror and saw the devil. It was me.

I can slay a devil when I see one, Steady practice mastery of self so not to be one

I, Charles W. Penrose, wrote the Manifesto with the assistance of Frank J. Cannon and John White... Wilford Woodruff signed it to beat the devil at his own game.

I'd fallen in love with the devil.

I didn't realize when I brought him back here that you'd inflict more damage." I said, once I'd finished the story. "I was defending your honor." Adrian gave me that devil-may-care smile that always managed to both infuriate and captivate me. "Pretty manly, huh?

I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.

I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story.

I’d learned a long time ago that you can’t prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it’s the devil to prove you didn’t do something.

Idle hands are the devil's playthings.

Idle minds are the devil's research-and-development department.

Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.

Idle time is the devil's play.

I did the Justice League thing the wrong way. I read too much on the Internet. You cant do that. The Internet is the devil. Or the Internet is not the devil - the comment boards are the devil.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves

IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.

I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated by it, too. Drawn to it. Travelers tap their brakes to ogle the mutilation and mangled metal on the side of the interstate, and the traffic backs up for miles. Hijacked planes crash into skyscrapers, breached levees drown a city, and CNN and the networks rush to the scene so that we can all sit in front of our TVs and feast on the footage. Stare, stunned, at the pandemonium--the devils let loose from their cages.

I don't generally watch the movie [ The House Of The Devil ]. It's sort of like hearing your voice on tape.

I do not think you are in any danger of starving," Maximus said. "The surgeon said only two weeks ago that you are too fat." "The devil!" Berkley said indignantly, sitting up; and Maximus snorted in amusement at having provoked him.

I don't count that relationship with Ricky. It's just like a blip at this point. I had to fall in love with the devil himself to get this sweet angel, Jack.

I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

I do sin, but I am not the devil.

I'd rather make one righteous dollar on my level Than make a million dollars spittin' rhymes for the devil.

If a Devil is one who dares, when others hold back, then I am happy to play the Devil in this Mystery, boy.

If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse.

I feel like if you're in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan.

If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency; if the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will.