Devil Quotes - Page 20

• The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Work, Laziness

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.166

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• On the good ship Lollipop Its a sweet trip To the candy shop Where bon-bon's play, On the sunny beach Of peppermint bay Lemonade stands, Everywhere Crackerjack bands, Fill the air, And there you are, Happy landings on a chocolate bar. See the sugar bowl Do a tootsie roll In a big bad devils food cake, If you eat too much, Oh, oh, You'll awake, With a tummy ache.

  Shirley Temple

  Sweet, Beach, Air

  Song: On The Good Ship Lollipop

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• It's as though some poor devil were to set out for a large dinner party with the knowledge that the following morning he would be hearing exactly what each of the other guests thought of him.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Morning, Party, Would Be

  1959 Of opening night reviews.The Ape In Me.

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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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• Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Worst

  Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”

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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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• 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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• Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Expression, Greek, Belly

  "Gil Blas". Book by Alain-René Lesage. Book VIII, Chapter 9, 1735.

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• A man must be able to affirm, I know for certain, that what I teach is the only Word of the high Majesty of God in heaven, his final conclusion and everlasting, unchangeable truth, and whatsoever concurs and agrees not with this doctrine, is altogether false, and spun by the devil.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Heaven, Doctrine

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.18

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• The Devil is a woman.

  Camille Paglia

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.39, Canongate Books

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• If you aim at a Scottish presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy, as God and the devil. ... No bishop, no King! I will make them conform themselves, or else I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse.

  King James I

  Kings, Land, Bishops

  Speaking of the Puritans at Hampton Court Conference, January 16, 1604.

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• The very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer.

  Saul Alinsky

  Men, Kingdoms, Firsts

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.9, Vintage

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• No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.

  Daniel Defoe

  Men, Evil, Design

  Daniel Defoe (2016). “The Complete Adventures of Robinson Crusoe – 3 Books in One Volume (Illustrated): The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe & Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe”, p.568, e-artnow

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• God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil, the world, and our own flesh delude and draw us away from the true faith, and throw us into superstition, distrust, despair, and other grievous sins and wickedness; and that, if we should be tempted therewith even to the highest degree, we still may conquer, and at last triumph over them.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Despair, Triumph

  Martin Luther (2017). “Martin Luther's Table Talk”, p.72, Gideon House Books

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• Jesus did not come to the Earth to start 285 squabbling denominations fighting over the Bible. How like the devil to divide Christians over the Bible.

  John Hagee

  Christian, Jesus, Fighting

  "How Free Is Freedom?". July 02, 2006.

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• The devil is everywhere under the skin of things, searching for a way into the light.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Light, Skins, Way

  "Elizabeth Costello". Book by J. M. Coetzee, 2003.

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• It hath been said, that there is of nothing so much in hell as of self-will. The which is true, for there is nothing else there than self-will, and if there were no self-will, there would be no Devil and no hell. When it is said that Lucifer fell from Heaven, and turned away from God and the like, it meaneth nothing else than that he would have his own will, and would not be at one with the Eternal Will. So was it likewise with Adam in Paradise. And when we say Self-will, we mean, to will otherwise than as the One and Eternal Will of God willeth.

  Martin Luther

  Mean, Self, Heaven

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• I am a night creature, and I write from midnight till dawn, secluded in my office and surrounded by my collection of dragons (I have 400 of them). I only use Macintosh computers, which I name in dynastic order. Right now I'm using MacDragon 5. Only the devil is able to decipher my handwriting.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Writing, Night, Dragons

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• During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whose people the sea had hitherto held the role of the devil, the cold and voracious hereditary foe of humanity.

  Isak Dinesen

  Country, Fashion, Book

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.1, Vintage

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• It's the Devil's way now,
  There is no way out,
  You can scream and you can shout,
  It is too late now.

  Thom Yorke

  Too Late, Way, Scream

  "Song: '2 + 2 = 5'". 2003.

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• The devil is a cross between a really good used-car salesman and a game-show host, but with a lot more style and charm.There's a little Cary Grant thrown in there too.

  Ray Wise

  Games, Car, Style

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• You are blinded and you serve the God of the Jews, who is not the God of love but the God of hatred. Why don't you listen to Christ Himself, who said to the Jews: "Ye are of your father the devil!"

  Julius Streicher

  Father, Hatred, Christ

  Speech in Nuremberg on April 21, 1932. "Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938.

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• Ever since our first fathers by infection took this morbum sathanicum, this devilish disease, pride, of the devil, such tinder is our nature, that every little spark sets us on fire; our nature hath grown so light, that every little thing puffeth us up, and sets us aloft in our altitudes presently.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Father, Pride, Fire

  Lancelot Andrewes (2008). “Ninety-Six Sermons by the Right Honourable and Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrewes, Sometime Lord Bishop of Winchester, Vol. V”, p.9, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Money doesn't spend in hell.... The devil deals in a different coin.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Money, Different, Coins

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• A fiery shield is God's Word; of more substance and purer than gold, which, tried in the fire, loses nought of its substance, but resists and overcomes all the fury of the fiery heat; even so, he that believes God's Word overcomes all, and remains secure everlastingly, against all misfortunes; for this shield fears nothing, neither hell nor the devil.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Fire, Gold

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.19

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