Devil Quotes - Page 9

• One sees more devils than vast hell can hold

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Hell, Midsummer

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

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• I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

  Gene Wilder

  Believe, Names, Kind

  "An Interview with Gene Wilder on a Career in Comedy and the First Person He Tried to Make Laugh: His Mother". Interview with Brian Braiker, www.newsweek.com. March 17, 2005.

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• No, no! The devil is an egotist,
  And is not apt, without why or wherefore,
  "For God's sake," others to assist.
  [Ger., Nein, nein! Der Teufel ist ein Egoist
  Und thut nicht leicht um Gottes Willen,
  Was einem Andern nutzlich ist.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sake

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• When you live with the Devil you learn there's a God very quickly.

  Sinead O'Connor

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

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• I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.

  Max von Sydow

  Believe, Evil, People

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• For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Backbone, Neurotic, Pressured

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. November 3, 2003.

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• Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Play, Degrees, Toys

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• What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Nature, Book

  Letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 July 1856

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• I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.

  Little Richard

  Creating, Giving, Credit

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• The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.

  Walter Martin

  God, Religious, Jesus

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• Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

  H. L. Mencken

  Marriage, Ransom, Pay

  A Little Book in C Major ch. 6 (1916)

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• Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Culture, World, Sticks

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1875). “Faust: A Tragedy”, p.258

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• Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Crosses, Amen

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Ambrose ECCLES (1805). “The Comedy of the Merchant of Venice ... With the Notes and Illustrations of Various Commentators, and Remarks by the Editor [A. Eccles].”, p.116

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• Wealth is the Conjurer's Devil, Whom, when he thinks he hath, the Devil hath him.

  George Herbert

  Thinking, Wealth

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.9

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• What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Enemy, Mankind

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. [109]

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• Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Stupid, Ignorance, Names

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• He must needs go that the devil drives.

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Needs, Maxims

  William Shakespeare (1998). “All's Well that Ends Well”, p.95, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A church debt is the devil's salary.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Church, Salary, Debt

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• In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

  Don Marquis

  Church, Males, Figures

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• Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Distance, Technology, Telephones

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.225, University of Georgia Press

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• The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

  Jerry Falwell

  Christian, Running, Country

  "Jerry Falwell: An Unauthorized Profile". Book by William R. Goodman Jr.; James J. H. Price, 1981.

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• Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

  Hosea Ballou

  Persecution, Persecuted, Propagation

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• The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

  H. L. Mencken

  Children, Failure, Taken

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• When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.

  Thomas Aquinas

  World, Made, This World

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Artist, Popular Song, Making Money

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