Best 1646 quotes in «devil quotes» category

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

Don't fret, Grannie. We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil out of her

Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.

Dot the i's, cross the t's, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.

Doubt in love is the Devil in the paradise!

Do the devils lie? No; for then even hell could not subsist.

Do Tasmanian devils really exist?

Down in devil gate drive. I led the angel pack on the road to sin. Knock down the gates, let me in.

"Do you know," the Devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours - have solved it? Why, there is a chap on Saturn - he looks something like a mushroom on stilts - who solves partial differential equations mentally; and even he's given up.

Dreaming be damned, this is control. Raping your soul, devil's hole.

Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.

Drugs, what a devil-inspired poison! It’s death on the installment plan.

Ectoplasmic plane? What the devil is that? (Simone) It’s jargon from those of us who are corporeally challenged. It’s the great beyond where we bounce into each other like floundering atoms. It’s really kind of gross – which is why I hang out with you. But only because you’re less gross than they are. (Jesse)

Eisner mentioned he was uncomfortable calling Kirby someone with heavy artistic intent. I paraphrase, but Eisner felt Jack was mostly concerned with hitting his page count, telling good stories, and keeping his family fed. Not pursuing some aesthetic ideal - to seek that motive in Kirby's work was, he suggested, misguided. I happened to be holding the original artwork to the Devil Dinosaur #4 double-splash, which I turned around and showed Eisner - who took a moment, and said something uncharacteristic: “Okay, I might be wrong.

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy

Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.

Energy in itself is a sort of redemption. No wonder we admire Satan. But if the Devil were listless, if he were a pale man in his underwear who watched television by day behind closed venetian blinds - oh if that were the devil I would fear him.

Entertainment is the devils substitute for joy, and when you get satisfaction out of that dumb thing, your joy will diminish.

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.

Equations are the devil's sentences.

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]

Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.

Everybody likes to win. It sure beats the devil out of losing.

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.

Every step you make in Jesus Christ enrages the devil.

Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things.

Everything you do in life, I don't care, good or bad - don't blame God, don't blame the devil, don't blame me, blame you. You control everything! The thoughts you think, the words you utter, the foods you eat, the exercise you do. Everything is controlled by you.

Fame is a devil; obscurity is an Angel! Stay away from me, Devil; Come near to me, Angel!

Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows.

Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.

Faust was this mythical figure who sold his soul to the devil for unlimited power. The Japanese have made that Faustian bargain because they don't have coal, oil or hydro power.

Fear arises from the weakness of the flesh over which the devil has power.

Faster than the devil *times* Sharper than wind! That's the ultimate law of the hero!!

Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

Fear can paralyze us and keep us from believing God and stepping out in faith. The devil loves a fearful Christian!

Fear you?" she said without thinking. "Good God, I would never do that." Easing her head back, Westcliff looked at her while a slow smile spread across his face. "No, you wouldn't," he agreed. "You'd spit in the devil's eye if it suited you.

Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy: sayest thou that house is dark?

For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.

For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it (life), whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to 'glorify God and enjoy him forever.'

For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff - you know, anything that had to do with old Beelzebub or Lucifer. But I had to put the brakes on it, because there's a lot of stuff out there, and the collection was just growing too quickly.

For every level there’s another Devil.

For his sake I'm sorry that Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil, but for our sake and the sake of music I'm glad he did.

For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do not go on prosperously here on earth.

For the devil may tempt the good, but he cannot find rest in them; for he is shaken violently, and upset, and driven out, now by their prayers, now by their tears of repentance, and now by their almsgiving and similar good works.

For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who "believe and tremble" has one.

Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift.