Robertson Davies Quotes About Devil

Quotes about: Devil

• The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar.

  Robertson Davies

  Attitude, Cat, Responsibility

  Robertson Davies (1986). “The papers of Samuel Marchbanks”, Viking, 1986

• On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

  Robertson Davies

  Laughing, Devil, Satanic

  Robertson Davies (1996). “Fifth business”, Penguin, 1996

• I don't suppose God laughs at the people who think He doesn't exist. He's above jokes. But the devil isn't. That's one of his most endearing qualities.

  Robertson Davies

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  Robertson Davies (1976). “World of wonders”, Penguin Books, 1977

• The attributes of God have been carefully explored. But the Devil's attributes have been left vague. I think I've found one of them. It is he who puts the prices on things." "Doesn't God put a price on things?" "No. One of his attributes is magnanimity. But the Devil is a setter of prices, and a usurer, as well. You buy from him at an agreed price, but the payments are all on time, and the interest is charged on the whole of the principal, right up to the last payment, however much of the principal you think you have paid off in the meantime.

  Robertson Davies

  Thinking, Devil, Lasts

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