Devil Quotes - Page 32

I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities.

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.

Make happiness a habit. Be so happy you drive the devil stark-raving mad.

Theology is the logic of the Devil.

André Weil always looked like that, not only when he talked about the devil.

Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.

And after the flood we are told that the curse that had been pronounced upon Cain was continued through Ham's wife, as he had married a wife of that seed. And why did it pass through the flood? because it was necessary that the devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God

Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.

Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.

Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment, or by hating them, as convinced men have hated, say, Darwin and Freud, as agents of some devil.

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

The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.

No, no! The devil is an egotist, And is not apt, without why or wherefore, "For God's sake," others to assist. [Ger., Nein, nein! Der Teufel ist ein Egoist Und thut nicht leicht um Gottes Willen, Was einem Andern nutzlich ist.]

That's another reason I did Daredevil: I didn't get killed off in it.

Devils don't come from hell beneath us, they come from the sky.

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

Religious contention is the devil's harvest.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say.

If I were the devil I should broadcast doubts about the truths and relevance and good sense and straightforwardness of the Bible ... At all costs I should want to keep them from using their minds in a disciplined way to get the measure of its message.

The devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it.

Sin and the devil will always find helpers in our hearts.

Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print.

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

He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.