Devil Quotes - Page 22

• And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.

  John Dryden

  Women, Hunting, Design

  John Dryden, C. B., Esquire Charles BATHURST (1852). “Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]”, p.271

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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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• 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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• 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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• Death is not regarded as a natural affair by primitive man. Death is believed to be due to the intervention of some malevolent or at least not well disposed power. Normally it should not take place. So we have all through history crude explanations of death, as e.g., the influence of the serpent, the devil, sin.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Men, Primitive Man, Influence

  Joseph Alexander Leighton (1918). “The Field of Philosophy: An Outline of Lectures on Introduction to Philosophy”

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• We are told that if you are not occupied with the mind all the time, then you will invite the devil. It is such a heightened misconception that people are going crazy just because of this. An empty mind is not the devil's home but an empty mind is the home of the Buddha.

  Anandmurti Gurumaa

  Crazy, Home, Empty Mind

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• Speaking of the devil, well here he comes now. Got my defenses down. And I'd go through hell to make him mine.

  Dolly Parton

  Down And, Defense, Hell

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• The Devil is a Five-headed
  Snake, says the father.
  The son says, Nay, it's a Six-headed one.
  And then their hearts burn
  with hate for each others -
  and they live apart for many years.

  Subramanya Bharathi

  Father, Hate, Heart

  "When I Think Of My People Broken Down". "Journal of South Asian Literature", Vol. 12, No. 1, published by Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University, (p. 11), 1976.

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• I took whatever the devil offered me.

  Robin Thicke

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• The devil comes to bring a fate you couldn't imagine in your wildest dream.

  Hilary Duff

  Dream, Fate, Imagine

  Song: Any Other Day

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• I made a bargain with him, the chief in a world we can't see. (devil)

  Bob Dylan

  World, Made, Chiefs

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• See God gave us the talent, but the devil make us famous.

  Barry Sanders

  Talent

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• Satan is around y'all. Devil on your shoulder.

  Jadakiss

  Satan, Shoulders

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• The devil tryna rip out my soul. Lost my soul.

  Kid Cudi

  Rip, Soul, Lost

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• Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.

  Bette Midler

  Soul, Chains, My Soul

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• The Rothschild family is the head of the organization in which I entered in Colorado. All the Occult Brotherhoods are part of it. It is a Lucifer Organization to install his reign in the whole world. ... Supposedly the Rothschilds have personal dealings with the Devil. I have personally been in his villa and have experienced it. And I know it is true.

  John Todd

  Organization, Brotherhood, Colorado

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• Sold my soul to Satan. I've been dancing with the devil. So when you get to hell you can say you know me. I'm easily attracted by the dark side. Devil keep following.

  J. Cole

  Dark, Dancing, Soul

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• The Devil's methods of opposition are those of alliance and antagonism, and the only serious one is the first. Let us beware of it. Do not let us imagine that we can take into our fellowship and enlist under one banner men who simply affirm truth about Jesus, unless in their own lives there is an absolute loyalty to the Lord Christ. Antagonism is the creation of force for the kingdom of God. Put a man in prison for Christ's sake, and the earthquake will surely follow, and the work will spread.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Loyalty, Jesus, Men

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• The devil comes and soon my subconscious and conscious might start to brawl. As this cunning demon takes me as its voodoo doll.

  Fergie

  Dolls, Might, Demon

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• I got a Lucifer soul. I'll be the Devil's son, Devil's work, gettin' work.

  Schoolboy Q

  Son, Soul, Lucifer

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• To escape the power of the unknown, to prove to yourself that you don't believe in it, you accept its spells. Like an avowed atheist who sees the Devil at night, you reason: He certainly doesn't exist; this is therefore an illusion, perhaps a result of indigestion. But the Devil is sure that he exists, and believes in his upside-down theology. What, then, will frighten him? You make the sign of the cross, and he vanishes in a puff of brimstone.

  Umberto Eco

  Atheist, Believe, Book

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and odium of being slave-holders.

  Orestes Brownson

  Wisdom, Wages, Benefits

  Richard M. Reinsch, II, Orestes Augustus Brownson (2016). “Seeking the Truth: An Orestes Brownson Anthology”, p.171, CUA Press

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• I dislike The Exorcist, and I found it a warning sign of the dangers in a furious cinematic talent putting the audience through it (a Hitchcock phrase) without purpose, or without the nagging moral anxiety that activated Hitch. You see, I don't think William Friedkin believes in the Devil, or cares about him. I think he found exorcism a pretext for a gross-out and he calculated there was an audience for it, or a crowd ready to be challenged. Maybe I'm too much of an atheist to stand religion being so thrashed.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Atheist, Believe, Thinking

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• For what I saw at the abbey then (and will now recount) caused me to think that often inquisitors create heretics. And not only in the sense that they imagine heretics where these do not exist, but also that inquisitors repress the heretical putrefaction so vehemently that many are driven to share in it, in their hatred for the judges. Truly, a circle conceived by the Devil. God preserve us.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Thinking, Circles

  "The Name Of The Rose". Book by Umberto Eco, 1980.

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• I'm the devil's advocate. We have our own worshipers.

  Frank Zappa

  Satanic, Satanism, Devil Worship

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