Devil

Abash'd the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely.

- John Milton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Saint Augustine of Hippo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

- Clive Staples (Jack) Lewis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.

- Fiorello La Guardia Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

APOLOGIZE, v.i. To lay the foundation for a future offence.

- Ambrose Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

- Ambrose Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

LINEN, n. A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp. -- Calcraft the Hangman.

- Ambrose Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

REDUNDANT, adj. Superfluous needless de trop.

- Ambrose Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

AGITATOR, n. A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors -- to dislodge the worms.

- Ambrose Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgement of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.

- Ambrose Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

- Voltaire Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

- Jean Anouilh Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.

- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Is Mr. Heathcliff a man If so, is he mad And if not, is he a devil I sha'n't tell my reasons for making this inquiry but I beseech you to explain, if you can, what I have married . . .

- Emily Bronte Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.

- Charles Caleb Colton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The devil's most devilish when respectable.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare and I dare a little more, as I grown older.

- Catherine Drinker Bowen Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes

- George Bernard Shaw Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.

- Daniel Defoe Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The devil has his elect.

- Thomas Carlyle Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Satan always finds some mischief for idle hands to do.

- Isaac Watts Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

POSITIVISM, n. A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.

- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The devil helps his servants for a season but when they get into a pinch he leaves them in the lurch.

- Sir L'Estrange Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

CLARIONET, n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet -- two clarionets.

- Ambrose Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.

- Minna Thomas Antrim Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes