Best 1646 quotes in «devil quotes» category

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

A single smile of man is a thousand defeat of the devil!

As Kierkegaard was the first to suggest, we can never know where our prayers are likely to go nor from whom the answers will come. When we think we are nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point.

A specter is haunting the cinema: the specter of narrative. If that apparition is an Angel, we must embrace it; and if it is a Devil, then we must cast it out. But we cannot know what it is until we have met it face to face.

A sour religion is the devil's religion.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

A stale mind is the devil's breadbox.

[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.

As with our colleges, so with a hundred "modern improvements"; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting a compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them.

At birth the Devil touched my tongue.

At Halloween a lot of young people were wearing Bush masks mocked up as an incarnation of the Devil.

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honour of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil's Row, who were circling madly about the heap and pelting him. His infantile countenance was livid with the fury of battle. His small body was writhing in the delivery of oaths.

At the threshold of every transition in our lives the devil send a spirit of fear. Therefore be strong and very courageous!

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.

At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.

A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.

A witch is a person who hath conference with the Devil to consult with him or to do some act.

Basque is one of the world's more alarming languages. Only a handful of adult foreigners, they say, have ever managed to learn it. The Devil tried once and mastered only three words - profanities, I assume.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

Believer's should never deal with doubts and fears because they are the devil's narcotics.

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

Behind the cross is the devil.

Be strong! Don't talk of ghosts and devils.

Be the person that when your feet touch the floor in the morning the devil says, "awe s***.. they're up".

Bedevil the devil and devil be dammed. I fear no devil and bow to no man. - Adam Black

Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you.

Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.

Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and the devil of it is that it deadens the perceptions.

Black hair, angelic face, and devil eyes.

Black coffee’s a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin’s. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.

Bloody Facebook- and to think I'd enjoyed The Social Network. Clearly Mark Zuckerberg was the devil.

Blue Devils may have won today. Devil gonna lose tomorrow.

But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.

But he didn't need to seek visual confirmation of what he'd just heard to know she had. And the truth was, he couldn't blame her. He'd not have let her die, either. He'd have moved mountains. He'd have battled God or Devil for his wife's life. She'd betrayed him. He smiled faintly.

But even so, we're not devils, let alone gods. We're human. We're human!

But fear - panic - knows no reason. It brings into being overnight the things that it fears. It is the greatest torment of humanity. Fear is, in short, the devil. It causes most of the sin, disaster, disease and misery of the world. It is the ravening lion roaming the earth seeking whom it may...devour. The only refuge is in the knowledge that it has no power other than the power you give it.

But have we Holy Ghost power — power that restricts the devil's power, pulls down strongholds, and obtains promises? Daring delinquents will be damned if they are not delivered from the devil's dominion. What has hell to fear other than a God-anointed, prayer-powered church?

But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man.

But if Satan speaks sometimes, God keep silent, always. We have to find the answers alone.

But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.

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 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 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.