Devil Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• Witches admitted their relations with the devil. Our blood boils - how could they be forced to admit this when there is no devil. But reason tells us this is not true. The devil does exist and was in fact the inquisitor.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Blood, Atheism, Doe

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• I feel much more comfortable dressed in jeans and a T-shirt. I'm wearing very fancy clothes today. It's Valentino. But the film ["Devil Wears Prada"] did not make me change my style. If anything, it has made me appreciate the people who do this every morning in a serious way, get dressed up and really put together that look. I mean, wow. It's amazing.

  Meryl Streep

  Morning, Mean, Jeans

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I, Charles W. Penrose, wrote the Manifesto with the assistance of Frank J. Cannon and John White... Wilford Woodruff signed it to beat the devil at his own game.

  Charles W. Penrose

  Games, White, Beats

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• You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction while we've still got a majority ranting about gods, devils, souls, and absolute morality, and using an ancient book written by ignorant nomads as a guide.

  Doug Graham

  Book, Soul, Ignorant

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• Come, let us sing a psalm, and drive away the devil.

  Martin Luther

  Psalms

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• It is interesting how fashion filters down and we discover in the "Devil Wears Prada" that we're all prey to trends, even if we think we are not.

  Meryl Streep

  Fashion, Thinking, Interesting

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• The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Men, Hands

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2010). “Hound of the Baskervilles”, p.32, Bibliolis Books

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• Luke Jermay is as devious as he's clever, and he's a Master at complication - with this take on TTTCBE he might just fool the Devil.

  Roberto Giobbi

  Clever, Might, Fool

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• The devil's spirit's trapped inside me. My soul is possessed by this devil my new name is Rain Man. So I keep conjuring (demons), sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn (Satan) from. I'm just relaying what the voice in my head's saying. Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the monster that's under my bed. Get along with the voices inside of my head.

  Eminem

  Rain, Men, Names

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• Of a young hermit, an old devil.
  [Fr., De jeune hermite, vieil diable.]

  Francois Rabelais

  Youth, Hermits, Young

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• The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  World, Shapes, March

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1833). “Faust, a dramatic poem, tr. into Engl. prose with notes by the translator of Savigny's 'Of the vocation of our age for legislation'”, p.95

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• Grey is the devil's favorite color.

  Peter Kreeft

  Color, Grey, Favorite Color

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• I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Gossip, Want

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.80

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• If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress--if there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pain, Angel, Reflection

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.205

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• God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Ought

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.

  Charles Lamb

  Play, Grace, Host

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• Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were cruel. The world was acid and sour with hate, fat with greed, yellow with the triumph of the strong and the rich.

  Rose Macaulay

  Strong, Hate, War

  Rose Macaulay (Dame.) (1940). “And No Man's Wit”

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• When that devil's bullet lodged itself inside the body of Martin Luther King, he had already begun an astonishing mobilization of poor, Black, white, latino Americans who had nothing to lose. They would challenge our government to eliminate exploitative, merciless, and war-mongering policies, nationwide, or else "tie up the country" through "means of civil disobedience." Dr. King intended to organize those legions into "coercive direct actions" that would make of Babylon a dysfunctional behemoth begging for relief. Is it any wonder he was killed?

  June Jordan

  Country, Kings, War

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• There are so many intellectual and moral angels battling for rationalism, good citizenship, and pure spirituality; so many and such eminent ones, so very vocal and authoritative! The poor devil in man needs all the support and advocacy he can get. The artist is his natural champion. When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

  Aldous Huxley

  Angel, Artist, Men

  Aldous Huxley (1970). “Collected Works: Do what you will”

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• 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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• 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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• [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 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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• The Christian religion is derogatory to the Creator in all its articles. It puts the Creator in an inferior point of view, and places the Christian devil above him. It is he, according to the absurd story in Genesis, that outwits the Creator in the Garden Eden, and steals from Him His favorite creature, man, and at last obliges Him to beget a son, and put that son to death, to get man back again; and this the priests of the Christian religion call redemption.

  Thomas Paine

  Christian, Son, Men

  Thomas Paine (2016). “COMMON SENSE (Political Classics Series): Advocating Independence to People in the Thirteen Colonies - Addressed to the Inhabitants of America”, p.598, e-artnow

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