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Devil Quotes
"Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied."
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"The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing."
100
"The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself."
66
"We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th."
65
"Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil."
61
"A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil."
61
"Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy."
57
"The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch."
56
"A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard."
55
"There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil."
55
"What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?"
51
"Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever."
49
"Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it."
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"If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say."
48
"The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold."
46
"Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in."
46
"The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level."
46
"Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil."
45
"The devil himself had probably redesigned Hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts."
44
"For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot."
44
"I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun."
44
"I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role."
44
"Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat."
43
"Well one of the times I did a stunt was in the devil's snare room and they lifted me up on a harness and a safety rope really, really high, and they just dropped me down into the devil's snare."
43
"The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing."
43
"I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil."
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