Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. L. Mencken

Haste is of the devil. Slowness is of God.

Guillermo del Toro

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.

Francis Thompson

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.

Francis Quarles

Whosoever obeyeth the devil, casteth himself down: for the devil may suggest, compel he cannot.

Horatio Nelson

Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

Little Richard

I've never seen the devil create music.

Mikhail Bakunin

Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God.

R. A. Torrey

God's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything.

Pope Paul VI

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

Jodi Picoult

What's worse ...? The devil you don't know ... or the devil you do?

Keanu Reeves

I went with an exorcist for a bit. I just want to know really practical things, like how do you hold someone possessed by the devil,

Oral Roberts

God is a good God, and the Devil is a bad Devil.

There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it. What the devil was the reason?

Marquis de Sade

Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?

Mary MacLane

Some day the Devil will come to me and say: 'Come with me.'And I will answer: 'Yes.

Mary McCarthy

Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils.

Mark Twain

When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil - tell him to go to Chicago - it'll anser every purpose, and is perhaps, a leetle more expensive.

Maria Monk

I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.

Marilyn Manson

NO WE ARE NOT DEVIL WORSHIPPERS!!! I've never been and never will be a satan worshipper or someone who worships a devil.

Freddie Mercury

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

Francois Rabelais

Of a young hermit, an old devil. [Fr., De jeune hermite, vieil diable.]

George Meredith

It is the devil's masterstroke to get us to accuse him

Fyodor Dostoevsky

If not reason, then the devil.

Jose Bergamin

Theology is the logic of the Devil.

Joni Mitchell

I live in a box of paints I'm frightened by the devil And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid

Joni Mitchell

I met a woman She had a mouth like yours She knew your life She knew your devils and your deeds And she said "Go to him, stay with him if you can But be prepared to bleed

Kevin Smith

I feel like if you're in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan.

Scott Gomez

The league's changed, and maybe some of the Devils' wins aren't the way the Devils used to win. But we'll take it.

Emile M. Cioran

However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

Ellen G. White

Satan has many helpers.

Ellis Peters

You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you.

Elliott Smith

They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases.