Devil Quotes - Page 24

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy

When God ignores you, the devil starts looking good.

Acts of the devil revealed and reveled, designed to recline the mind to lower level.

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

The Devil may also make use of morality.

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

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 church debt is the devil's salary.

The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.

If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved Algeria.

The gods spend the wealth the universe gathers, they scan the wonders and fling them to nothingness. That's why they're the gods! I told you they were devils.

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.

We all have that capacity, to be two things. And after all I was named for both the devil and the angel. Demonio y angel. Dem-y-an.

I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing 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

The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.

When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.

If [the devil has] brought you down, make sure that with Christ’s enabling you stand back up.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

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

The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.