Devil Quotes
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Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
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Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it
Thomas Carlyle
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Ridicule is the language of the devil
Thomas Carlyle
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Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel
Spanish Proverb
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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.
Henry Louis Mencken
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No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.
Guy H. King
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Neutral men are the devil`s allies.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
Branch Rickey
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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
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Can anyone picture God telling, taking, or enjoying a good joke? The idea is laughable. The Devil, on the other hand, laughs with demonic mirth, is possessed of a sardonic wit, and his eyes hold a glint of wicked bemusement. The farthest God, in his popul...
Diane LaVey
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If the devil does not exist, and man has therefore created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Talk of the devil, and his horns appear
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were...
Ambrose Bierce
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He that preaches war is the devil`s chaplain
John Ray
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell
Oscar Wilde
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Probably the toughest time in anyone`s life is when you have to murder a loved one because they`re the devil.
Emo Philips
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...beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell.
Albert Einstein
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In the morning of the night ~~ When I woke to find you gone ~~ I knew your distant devil ~~Must be draggin` you along
Melissa Etheridge
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Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality
Grace Kelly
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People always say, `That stuff you did in Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998) must have been difficult....but I say, `No, it wasn`t really: that was some of the easier stuff to do,` because it was always clear and made a lot of...
Daniel Craig
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Quentin Tarantino called me once. Someone had written `Is Michael Bay the Devil?` Quentin said, `Don`t worry, last year they called me the Antichrist.`
Michael Bay
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The devil is seductive, and so guns are glorious in the culture. I understand there`s a case to be made. For instance, Spike Lee said something like this, that you can`t have a scene with drugs in a film that doesn`t secretly make you want to do drugs. In...
Ethan Hawke
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In American films, this period of life is not treated seriously. You have either the cute and cuddly Disney kid or the evil devil monster. For me it`s fertile territory - middle class kids growing up in the suburbs.
Todd Solondz
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I ate onions before my kissing scene with Jewel Kilcher - said in the December 1999 issue of Cosmopolitan when asked about starring with Ride with the Devil (1999/I) co-star Jewel Kilcher.
Skeet Ulrich
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In this business there is Plan A, in which you become successful by living and acting with a lot of integrity. Then there`s Plan B, where you sell your soul to the Devil. I still find it hard to distinguish one from the other.
Sharon Stone
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[asked how many characters on "The Simpsons" (1989) he voices] I think I do about 12 regular characters but I`ve been able to pad the resume with God, The Devil and Hitler.
Harry Shearer
