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Devil Quotes - Page 35

I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by.

I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by.

Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom”, p.365, Del Rey

You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew.

Richard Baxter (1815). “The poor man's best companion: in plain and familiar dialogues. With forms of prayer for various uses ... By the Rev. Richard Baxter”, p.221

There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.

Peter S Beagle (2007). “A Fine & Private Place”, p.144, Tachyon Publications

Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Susan J. Wolfson, Ronald Levao (2012). “The Annotated Frankenstein”, p.210, Harvard University Press

After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers.

"Luther's Works, Volume 41:Church and Ministry III" by Helmut T. Lehman, edited by Eric W. Gritsch, Augsburg Fortress Press, (p. 279), 1966.

Who strikes man with love -- God or the Devil?

Leonid Andreyev (1922). “He who Gets Slapped: A Play in Four Acts”

Gossip is the foul smell from the Devil's backside.

Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Chains”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.32

So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.

John Dryden (1701). “Poems on Various Occasions: And Translations from Several Authors”, p.10

A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction

John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.105, Oxford University Press

In wretched outcomes, the devil is in the details.

"Dark Age Ahead". Book by Jane Jacobs, Chapter Seven, Unwinding Vicious Spirals, p. 153, 2004.