Best 1646 quotes in «devil quotes» category

Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes the scripture.

No, evidently habit means a lot. The devil knows what habit can do to a person.

No man who drank or smoked could ever come nearer to me than the telephone. I'd say, I won't let you - you nicotine-soaked, beer-besmeared, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devil - talk to me face to face.

No one has ever conquered this game. One week out there and you are God, next time you are the devil. But it does keep you coming back.

No one is saying you're possessed by the devil anymore except the most ignorant of people in modern culture.

Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.

Nothing will motivate conservative evangelical Christians to vote Republican in the 2008 presidential election more than a Democratic nominee named Hillary Rodham Clinton - not even a run by the devil himself ... I certainly hope that Hillary is the candidate. She has $300 million so far. But I hope she's the candidate. Because nothing will energize my [constituency] like Hillary Clinton. If Lucifer ran, he wouldn't.

Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!

NO WE ARE NOT DEVIL WORSHIPPERS!!! I've never been and never will be a satan worshipper or someone who worships a devil.

Now I just don't know who to tell to go to hell Who put the old devil in the distorted angel?

Nuh-uh. No deals with the devil. I’ve learned my lesson on that one. ~Jaime Vegas

Nuns? They'd take one look at Barrons and decide the devil himself had come knockng. He not only looked dangerous, he emanated something that made even me feel like crossing myself sometimes, and I'm not religious.

Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.

Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.

Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well.

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them. And its snap split the world in two.

Old Dublin City there is no doubtin' Bates every city upon the say. 'Tis there you'd hear O'Connell spoutin' And Lady Morgan making tay. For 'tis the capital of the finest nation, With charmin' pisintry upon a fruitful sod, Fightin' like devils for conciliation, And hatin' each other for the Love of God.

Once sure that the doctrine we teach is God's Word, once certain of this, we may build thereupon, and know that this cause shall and must remain; the devil shall not be able to overthrow it, much less the world be able to uproot it, how fiercely soever it rage.

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.

Once upon a time, an angel lay dying in the mist. And a devil knelt over him and smiled.

[On parents:] They're not gods to be pleased or devils to be exorcised. They're just there, and we can only hope they understand when we seem less than perfect. And try to understand, ourselves, when they're not all we'd like them to be.

One man in a meeting, filled with unbelief, can make a place for the devil to have a seat.

One of the most amazing things Jesus said is that at the judgment seat, preachers are going to say `I cast out devils, and Jesus will say `I never knew you.

One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the one best and greatest good, which is never taken into consideration because it cannot fit into any classification and the omission of which sends all systems and theories to the devil.

On his contract negotiations with the Devils: It's beyond money at this point. They're not even treating him as a member of their family, unless it's a dysfunctional family.

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.

One sees more devils than vast hell can hold

Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed.

Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.

Our refusal to fear reminds the devil that he is finished!

Our murmuring is the devil's music.

Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory, as parents are with the dog that bites their little one, but the weeping child itself they soothe.

Patience is a complot of the Devil to immobilize the men! Mortal men should be impatient and impetuous; patience is only for the immortals!

O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!

O you beast! I'll so maul you and your toasting-iron, That you shall think the devil is come from hell.

Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.

Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.

Prayer is the surest remedy against the devil and besetting sins.

People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.

Poetry is the Devil's wine.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

Perfectionists are their own devils.

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.