Devil Quotes - Page 6

• Accursed be he who plays with the devil.

  Friedrich Schiller

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  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 192-93, Wallenstein's Tod, 1. 3. 64, 1922.

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• If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."

  Sydney J. Harris

  Bible, Writing, Titles

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• Twitter is the Devil's playground.

  Albert Brooks

  Playgrounds

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• I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Plot, Lucky, Devices

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  It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Time, Women

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.334, 谷月社

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• As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

  Kerry Thornley

  Long, Religion, Long Time

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• Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

  Dan Millman

  Happiness, Success, Being Happy

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• The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

  William Shakespeare

  Witty, Atheist, Memorable

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [99]

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• Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Lying, Father, Pride

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• Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  People, Making Love, Three

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Calvin: Do you believe in the Devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I'm not sure man needs the help.

  Bill Watterson

  Believe, Men, Evil

  "The Days Are Just Packed". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1993.

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• Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

  Eric Butterworth

  God, Men, Thinking

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• The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

  Henry Fielding

  Thinking, Literature, Take Me

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.1655, Delphi Classics

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• Why should the devil have all the best tunes?

  William Booth

  Army, Tunes, Should

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• There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.

  Anne Nicol Gaylor

  God, Atheist, Heart

  "“No gods” solstice display returns for 7th year to Illinois Capitol". ffrf.org. December 4, 2015.

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• The devil knows more from experience than from being the devil

  Sandra Cisneros

  Life, Knows

  Sandra Cisneros (2003). “Caramelo, Or, Puro Cuento”

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• It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Angel, Pride

  "Manipulus Florum". Book edited by Thomas Hibernicus,

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• Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

  St. Jerome

  May, Kind, Employed

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• Marketing is the devil.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Marketing

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• O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Destiny, Names

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [285]

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• Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Philosophy, People

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• The meanest thing in the world is the devil.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  World

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.82

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• To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

  Pearl Bailey

  Life, Doe, Listen To Your Heart

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• The devil is not fighting religion. He's too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it. We are plainly told in the Scriptures that in the last days men will not endure sound doctrine and will depart from the faith and heap to themselves teachers to tickle their ears. We live in an epidemic of this itch, and popular preachers have developed “ear-tickling” into a fine art.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Teacher, Art

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• The most horrible wickedness and cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have troubled the human race began with this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. ... It would be far, far better for us to let a thousand devils roam the world, and publicly preach the doctrine of devils (if there were such a thing, which there isn't), than to let one impostor and monster such a Moses, Joshua, Samuel or the Bible prophets come speaking the so-called word of God, and causing men to believe it.

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Men, Race

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