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Devil Quotes
"Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied."
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"Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat."
"Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever."
"I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil."
"The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck."
"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."
"The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold."
"Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy."
"A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard."
"The devil himself had probably redesigned Hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts."
"It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to."
"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."
"The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself."
"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."
"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."
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
"I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do."
"What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?"
"For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot."
"The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still."
"Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in."
"To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil."
"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."
"Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil."
"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."
"The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level."
"The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch."
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