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Devil Quotes - Page 55

There is also an age-old excuse: “The devil made me do it.” Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.

"Cleansing the Inner Vessel". Boyd K. Packer's Address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2010.

If you want to drive the devil out of the world, hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch

Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride.

Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.12, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

Tell troth and shame the devil.

Ben Jonson (1756). “The tale of a tub. The sad shepherd; or, A tale of Robin Hood. Mortimer's fall. Entertai[n]ments. Speeches. Masques at court”, p.28

Election campaigns seem to siphon away political anger and even basic political intelligence into this great vaudeville, after which we all end up in exactly the same place.

"Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution'". Interview with Arun Gupta, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.

Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)”, p.34, Jazzybee Verlag

The devil has a Ph.D. in perfect logic.

Anthony De Mello (2010). “Seek God Everywhere: Reflections on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius”, p.107, Image

You look good to me, you damnable little devil, good to embrace and good to love.

Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2640, Ballantine Books

Curses of vanished elders echoed down on me; too pretty, too soft, too pale, eyes far too full of the Devil, ah, that devilish smile

Anne Rice (2009). “The Vampire Armand: The Vampire Chronicles 6”, p.34, Random House