Devil Quotes - Page 19

• The myth about the angel who rebelled against his Lord is the most beautiful of all myths, the proudest, the most revolutionary, the most immortal of them all.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Art

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• Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression.

  Thomas Szasz

  Aggression, Theologian, Seeing

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement”, p.172, Syracuse University Press

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• Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must have sold her heart to the devil to write like this—so beautiful, so funny and so strange. Her images stack and stack down the page without spilling, each line such a bombshell you'll start reading backward to the first line. These poems are like babies—they will pop out of trees.

  Zachary Schomburg

  Beautiful, Baby, Reading

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• Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Dresses, May, Modern

  Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Sinclair Lewis (1931). “Why Sinclair Lewis got the Nobel prize”

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• We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic: Be the devil's tool, resort to black magic, None can diverge from the ends which Heaven foreordained.

  Marianne Moore

  Heaven, Black, Magic

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.260, Penguin

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• I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière - a real devil.

  Coco Chanel

  Children, Real, Lovers

  "Paris, Paris : Journey Into the City of Light‎". Book by David Downie, p. 93, 2005.

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• Heroic figures are now obsolete,So Demigod and Devil find retreatIn minds of children - as rare beasts and men,Elsewhere extinct, persist in hill or fenFrom man protected - where each form assumesGigantic stature and intention, loomsFrom wind-moved, twilight-woven histories:For them each flower teems with mysteries.

  Osbert Sitwell

  Children, Flower, Twilight

  Osbert Sitwell (1931). “The collected satires and poems of Osbert Sitwell”

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• Whosoever obeyeth the devil, casteth himself down: for the devil may suggest, compel he cannot.

  Francis Quarles

  May

  Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems”, p.204

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• Honor thy Father and thy Mother was once said, but then someone said: What if I don't know your Father? A still voice said: Does that makes him the devil? He is still someone's Father, his name has been changed, but his story is the same. Why hate when we should Celebrate. In this world of two's, you got the Mourning Son, and the Daughter of the Night. They both equal light once you make it through the night. Now, wake the funk up!

  Bootsy Collins

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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• No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics; it grows less and less so.

  Learned Hand

  Political, Support, Doubt

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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

  William Faulkner

  People, Evoke, Glands

  William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”

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• It takes a man to make a devil.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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• Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.

  John Updike

  Order, Body, Chaos

  John Updike (1981). “Rabbit is Rich: Rabbit Redux ; Rabbit, Run”

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• God gave humans the truth, and the devil came and he said, 'Let's give it a name and call it religion.'

  Deepak Chopra

  Names, Giving, Said

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• To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.

  John Dryden

  Evil, Common, Nonsense

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author”, p.334

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• There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Mistake, Angel, Spirit

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Hail, mute devil! You are the most intense animal. An eternal mystic of the fleshly inferno.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Animal, Intense, Inferno

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• During the day, memories could be held at bay, but at night, dreams became the devil's own accomplices.

  Sharon Kay Penman

  Dream, Memories, Night

  Sharon Kay Penman (2009). “The Reckoning”, p.521, Macmillan

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• The habit of the religious way of thinking has biased our mind so grievously that we are - terrified at ourselves in our nakedness and naturalness; it has degraded us so that we deem ourselves depraved by nature, born devils.

  Max Stirner

  Religious, Thinking, Mind

  Max Stirner, James J. Martin, Steven T. Byington (2005). “The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority”, p.162, Courier Corporation

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• The confusion of spirit and body is quite understandable in a culture where spirit is concretized in magnificent skyscrapers, where cathedrals have become museums for tourists, where woman-flesh-devil are associated, and nature is raped for any deplorable excuse. Dieting with fierce will-power is the masculine route; dieting with love of her own nature is the feminine. Her only real hope is to care for her own body and experience it as the vessel through which her Self may be born.

  Marion Woodman

  Real, Museums, Self

  "The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter". Book by Marion Woodman, 1980.

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• Fascism is the cult of organised murder , invented by the arch-enemies of society . It tends to destroy civilization and revert man to his most barbarous state. Mussolini and Hitler might well be called the devils of an age, for they are playing hell with civilization.

  Marcus Garvey

  Men, Civilization, Enemy

  "Authors take Sides on the Spanish War". 1937.

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• If the devil went about doing a tenth of what he is accused of doing he would be poor from paying the blacksmith for ox-shoes for his hooves.

  Austin O'Malley

  Shoes, Would Be, Poor

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• There's nothing like being in fashion. A man that has once got his character up for a wit is always sure of a laugh, say what he may. He may utter as much nonsense as he pleases, and all will pass current. No one stops to question the coin of a rich man; but a poor devil cannot pass off either a joke or a guinea without its being examined on both sides. Wit and coin are always doubted with a threadbare coat.

  Washington Irving

  Fashion, Character, Men

  Washington Irving, Charles Neider (1998). “The Complete Tales of Washington Irving”, p.274, Da Capo Press

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• The Devil is not afraid to sit on an altar.

  Austin O'Malley

  Not Afraid, Altars

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• Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. ... If the government can compel such citizens as are fit for military service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and perform other martial duties in time of war, how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their children to school, because in this case we are warring with the devil, whose object it is secretly to exhaust our cities and principalities of their strong men.

  Martin Luther

  Strong, Children, Military

  Letter to the German rulers (1524) in "The History of Compulsory Education in New England" by John William Perrin, 1896.

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