Devil Quotes - Page 25

• The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.

  Horace Mann

  Ambition, Men, Rewards

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• Everything wonderful in appearance has been ascribed to angels, to devils, or to saints. Everything ancient has some legendary tale annexed to it. The common operations of nature have not escaped their practice of corrupting everything.

  Thomas Paine

  Angel, Practice, Religion

  Thomas Paine (1854). “The Works of Thomas Paine: A Hero in the American Revolution. With an Account of His Life ...”, p.208

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• You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew.

  Richard Baxter

  Doors, Done, Littles

  Richard Baxter (1815). “The poor man's best companion: in plain and familiar dialogues. With forms of prayer for various uses ... By the Rev. Richard Baxter”, p.221

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• Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. As he grew up it was his duty as a Christian and a gentleman to appear to despise filthy lucre, whatever his secret opinion of it might be.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Christian, Money, Children

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.23, Vanderbilt University Press

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• conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.

  Margaret Deland

  Horse, Conceit, Reformers

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• The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'

  Frederick Marryat

  Food, America, Cooking

  Frederick Marryat (1839). “A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions”

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• It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Perseverance, Sin, Humans

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• [On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Race, Want, Strange

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• The least stupid question a man asks in his lifetime is not: Is there a God and is He a god or a devil? But: Brother, why are you killing me?

  Storm Jameson

  Brother, Stupid, Men

  Storm Jameson (1956). “The Intruder”, London Macmillan 1956.

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• drama is made up of what people most fear and deny in themselves. The taboos. The secrets. The devils and the demons. The only reason they let us live, I suppose, is because somebody has to confront what those things are like and tell other people about them.

  Elizabeth Ashley

  Drama, People, Secret

  Elizabeth Ashley, Ross Firestone (1979). “Actress: Postcards from the Road”, Fawcett Books

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• The faith towards God in Christ must be sure and steadfast, that it may solace and make glad the conscience, and put it to rest. When a man has this certainty, he has overcome the serpent; but if he be doubtful of the doctrine, it is for him very dangerous to dispute with the devil.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Overcoming, Doctrine

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.19

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• Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed.

  James Ellis

  Way, Leisure, Moments

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• Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Christ

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• Each for himself is still the rule We learn it when we go to school The devil take the hindmost, O!

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  School, Stills

  Arthur Hugh Clough (1863). “Poems”, p.55

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• Ask what Infinity might produce and the only answer possible was, "Anything." Any good, any evil; any god, any devil.

  Frank Herbert

  Evil, Answers, Might

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.114, Penguin

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• Roy Keane is Damien, the devil incarnate off the film The Omen. He's evil. Even in training.

  Ryan Giggs

  Evil, Training, Film

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• While you are meditating revenge, the devil is meditating a recruit.

  Francois de Malherbe

  Revenge, Recruit, Meditating

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• I know the devil is working against me. I already know my mission and what I'm really here to do. People may not see it but he's been working overtime. He's not even able to mess with other artists because he's got so many demons around me.

  Cyhi the Prynce

  Artist, People, Demon

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• But we can't alibi all our ills by just knocking the old banker. First he loaned the money, then the people all at once wanted it back, and he didn't have it. Now he's got it again, and is afraid to loan it, so the poor devil don't know what to do.

  Will Rogers

  Business, People, Bankers

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Christ did not come to civilize. He came to save. Civilization is not the solution; it does not destroy the works of the devil. All civilization aims at world improvement, at the gradual elimination of the curse; it is a process of evolution. It is like a man who is suffering from a terrible disease, and the physician who comes to help him gives him a salve to apply. He treats the skin symptoms but the source of the disease he never considers and never touches. Such is a boasted and progressive civilization. It is a delusion.

  Arno C. Gaebelein

  Christian, Men, Civilization

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• Nothing can touch the Word of God. Not all the powers of earth and hell, men and devils combined, can ever move the Word of God. There it stands, in its own moral glory, spite of all the assaults of the enemy, from age to age. 'For ever, 0 Lord, Thy Word is settled in heaven.'

  Charles Henry Mackintosh

  Christian, Moving, Men

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• You're like the devil with horns in your head, the only way I'll get you is to get you in bed.

  Ringo Starr

  Evil, Bed, Way

  Song: Devil Woman, 2007

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• Cats are the tigers of us poor devils.

  Theophile Gautier

  Cat, Poor, Tigers

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• God doesn't send His children to Hell either. It's just the Devil's children that God sends to Hell. Why should God look after the Devil's children.

  John R. Rice

  Children, Looks, Hell

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• The devil only exists because of your belief in him; same goes for that other guy.

  Sage Francis

  Guy, Other Guys, Belief

  Song: Sun vs. Moon, 2005

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