Devil Quotes - Page 40

• You work for the devil, you better be ready to die for him.

  Garth Ennis

  Ready, Ready To Die, Dies

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• It is in the highest interests of the devil to persuade the world that religious people are disagreeable.

  Hubert Van Zeller

  Religious, People, World

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• Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Race, Citizens

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• Behind the cross is the devil.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Crosses, Behinds

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• I pity anyone who can't laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can't laugh.

  Billy Sunday

  Laughing, Pity

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• The Devil will use our words and his dictionary.

  Adrian Rogers

  Our Words, Use, Dictionary

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• We must kill the Devil afresh every day.

  R. A. Lafferty

  R. A. Lafferty (1975). “Past master”, Dissertations-G

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• Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil.
  Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Evil, Hypocrisy

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Twelfth Night”, p.68, Penguin

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• It may be that 'the voice of the people is the voice of God' in fifty one cases out of a hundred, but in the remaining forty nine it is quite as likely to be the voice of the devil, of, what is still worse, the voice of a fool.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Voice, People, Fifty

  Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “Letters, Selected and Edited by Elting E. Morison”

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• Steam was till the other day the devil which we dreaded. Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover, to let off the enemy, lest he should lift pot and roof and carry the house away.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  House, Enemy, Potters

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.419, Harvard University Press

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• Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.

  Edward de Bono

  Bible, Submission To God, Temptation

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• I hear Jerry Falwell every Sunday here talking about the devil and Hollywood. . . . I'm gonna write him a letter. Hollywood wasn't built on filth and dirt - it was built on talent.

  Mickey Rooney

  Writing, Sunday, Talking

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• With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion.

  Paul McCartney

  Thinking, People, Evil

  "The Beatles Anthology". Book by The Beatles, 2000.

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• I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Reading, Writing, Grace

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.118, Macmillan

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• Stop obeying a dictator; you will then see that he is nothing! Stop obeying a king; you will then see that he is nothing! If you refuse the Devil, you will then see that he will shade away!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Shade, Dictator

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• Surprise is the tool of the Devil and it is the greatest power of the evil forces!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Evil, Tools, Surprise

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• The Devil needs a very good lawyer to prove that it is not the Satan but the people themselves who have committed so many evils!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Evil, People, Needs

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• The Devil sends the precipices; God sends the bridges! When you come across a precipice, look for the bridge; it is somewhere there!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Bridges, Looks, Precipice

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• As in the natural life a child must have a father and a mother, so in the supernatural life of grace a true child of the Church must have God for his Father and Mary for his mother. If he prides himself on having God for his Father but does not give to Mary the tender affection of a true child, he is an impostor and his father is the devil.

  Louis de Montfort

  Mother, Children, Father

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• I'm not a stunt man. I'm not a dare devil...I'm an explorer.

  Evel Knievel

  Men, Dare, Explorers

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• The creativity and pathology of the human mind are, after all, two sides of the same medal coined in the evolutionary mint. The first is responsible for the splendour of our cathedrals, the second for the gargoyles that decorate them to remind us that the world is full of monsters, devils, and succubi.

  Arthur Koestler

  Creativity, Two Sides, Mind

  Arthur Koestler, Harold Harris (1975). “Astride the two cultures: Arthur Koestler at 70”, Not Avail

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• You leave out God, and you substitute the devil.

  Winston Churchill

  Substitutes

  Randolph Spencer Churchill, Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1983). “Winston S. Churchill: Companion Vol. V, Part Three, the Coming of War 1936-1939”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• If thou has not seen the devil, look at thine own self.

  Rumi

  Self, Looks, Ifs

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• Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?

  Tom Waits

  Sleep, World

  Song: Little Drop of Poison, 2006

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• I live in a box of paints
  I'm frightened by the devil
  And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid

  Joni Mitchell

  Paint, Boxes, Frightened

  Song: A Case of You

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