Devil Quotes - Page 42

As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else.

[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.

Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good.

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

But we can't alibi all our ills by just knocking the old banker. First he loaned the money, then the people all at once wanted it back, and he didn't have it. Now he's got it again, and is afraid to loan it, so the poor devil don't know what to do.

Don't blame me. The devil made me do it, and the Lord said you have to forgive.

The devil did not make me do it. I managed it all by myself.

This climate surrounding me has reached Clive Oppenheimer. In practical terms he sees that I'm not interested in any sort of daredevil stunts, I'm just interested in the work. And he's convinced that I'm clinically sane.

I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated by it, too. Drawn to it. Travelers tap their brakes to ogle the mutilation and mangled metal on the side of the interstate, and the traffic backs up for miles. Hijacked planes crash into skyscrapers, breached levees drown a city, and CNN and the networks rush to the scene so that we can all sit in front of our TVs and feast on the footage. Stare, stunned, at the pandemonium--the devils let loose from their cages.

The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.

We till shadowed days are done, We must weep and sing Duty's conscious wrong, The Devil in the clock

God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

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.

God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.

I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.

To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.

Anyone who resists the notion of women preachers is functioning as a tool of the devil.

Sometimes the names were humiliating, deliberately so. Somebody would pick out your flaw. If you were little, they would call you Shorty. And if you were angry, they would call you the Devil.

Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?

I don't generally watch the movie [ The House Of The Devil ]. It's sort of like hearing your voice on tape.

The Devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions.

Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.

Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.

A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the Devil, who ever consorts with our solitude.