Quotes by Devil Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil. H. L. Mencken ransomdevilmarriage Well, demonization itself can help ... to provide an alibi. You succumb to the Devil incarnate, and as a result you're not guilty yourself. Hannah Arendt guiltydevilhelping Haste is of the devil. Slowness is of God. H. L. Mencken slownessdevilhaste Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man. Harry Segall good-mandevilmen The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all. Gilbert K. Chesterton thanksdevilplay I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die. Gilbert K. Chesterton satandevilmen If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it. Gilbert K. Chesterton devillooksthinking I am an idle devil. But at least I work at it. Helen Cresswell idlenessidledevil A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God. Havelock Ellis degradedevilreligion There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them. Helen Rowland devilsaintliterature The devil is compromise. Henrik Ibsen devilcompromiseliterature What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil's work for free. Henry Fielding fellowsdevilsilly If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep. Henry Adams devilstrengthsleep The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love. Henry Fielding devilliteraturethinking When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce. Henry Ward Beecher devilmoneymen Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one. Henry Miller serenitydevilthinking That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!" Henri Nouwen deviltemptationstones We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves. Friedrich Nietzsche be-carefulthrowingdevil The devil's in most people. Not me, mind you, but most. Hetty King devilmindpeople Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe. Heywood Broun puritandevilthinking«1819202122232425262728»
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