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Devil Quotes - Page 30

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.

"Tom Waits Interviews Tom Waits". www.npr.org. May 20, 2008.

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.

'The Fudges in England' (1835) letter 3, l. 64

Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?

Stendhal (2006). “The Red and the Black: Easyread Edition”, p.381, ReadHowYouWant.com

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “Lectures Upon Shakspeare”, p.279, Classic Books Company

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.487

I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.

In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 326 (28 April 1778)

From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm of the World, And see how his stock went on.

Robert Southey, Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1860). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: With a Memoir of the Author”, p.77

I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

Robert Louis Stevenson (2010). “Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde”, p.4, Bibliolis Books

Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.

Robert Herrick, Alfred William Pollard (1898). “The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: edited by Alfred Pollard, with a pref. by A.C. Swinburne”