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Devil Quotes
"Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied."
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"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."
20
"We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th."
16
"A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil."
14
"There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil."
13
"What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?"
10
"Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in."
10
"Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil."
10
"A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard."
9
"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."
9
"I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil."
8
"The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold."
8
"Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy."
8
"The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself."
8
"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."
8
"The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level."
8
"If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say."
8
"Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat."
7
"Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever."
7
"You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it."
7
"The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing."
7
"I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role."
7
"With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future."
6
"But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling."
6
"The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still."
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