What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?

A country where a devil is sitting at the throne turns into a real hell!

The Devil has all the best tunes? My arse! Metalville just got a new sheriff.

Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God’s right hand.’ Her voice grew faint, the hint of a whisper. ‘In the end pride is the only evil, the root of...

Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep…

Fear is the devil’s most powerful tool because he can’t always convince a good man to do wrong, but he can paralyze his will with fright, keeping a good man from doing what is right....

The visual of Satan isn’t one of a big red devil with horns. Even worse, it’s the picture of something good, twisted enough to be compelling.

The Devil tempts that he may ruin and destroy; God tests that He may crown.

To be a devil isn’t so bad; to be a devil that can still see beauty, still remember what it was like to be in the sight of the most holy, now that was an...

Progress in evil was quick and easy; Apollyon was not a chap who hid himself and he gave every assistance in his power. The growth in goodness was so slow, at times so flat, so...

Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can...

Don’t deal bitterly with the enemy you see. Deal with the greater enemy that sent your enemy to you. If you focus on dealing with the “retailer”, remember that the “producer” can employ more “retailers”...

But what about me? I suffer, but still, I don’t live. I am x in an indeterminate equation. I am a sort of phantom in life who has lost all beginning and end, and who...

Now,’ cried the fiend, ‘follow me! You must understand that I cannot get out by the great gate – the porter will not suffer that. Once here, there is no retreat. Follow me, therefore: we...

I am trying now to be entirely honest. I did actually comfort in the thought that the Devil had, on Strawless Common, defeated God. I much preferred that thought to the thought that God hadn’t...

I want to believe there’s a God. Because I sure as hell know there’s a devil.

The love and compassion of Jesus christ is not understood and felt by devils.

I burned by bridges so the devil couldn’t follow me.

The good news is there’s no devil. The bad news is there’s no heaven. There’s nothing.

If the universe does consist of a battle between the devil and God, the final analysis should conclude that religion would have been the devil’s most brilliant move and science, God’s.

Next I prayed to Allah, whose ears are deaf; then did I beseech his fallen twin, the Devil Hornprick, who sits upon his thorn of fire, gloating upon his constellations and counting his bloody seeds....

WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.

Devil does not buy our empty soul. He waits for us to selling off that. (Diable n’achète notre me vide. – Il attend qu’on la solde.)

Vita ya dhambi hupiganwa katika uwanja wa akili na katika uwanja wa mwili kati ya Shetani na Mungu. Hutumia silaha kuu ya uongo na silaha kuu ya ukweli. Mungu anataka tuujue ukweli. Shetani anataka tuujue...

I look him in the eye every day.

We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must havethe stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthlessfurnace of this world. To make injustice the onlymeasure of our attention...

You can’t expect devil to show you the path that leads to Heaven.

El principio de la ciencia es saber que ignoramos. El mundo, que es el lugar donde estamos; la carne, que es lo que somos; el Diablo, que es aquello que deseamos: los tres, en un...

What?’ He cried, darting at him a look of fury: ‘Dare you still implore the Eternal’s mercy? Would you feign penitence, and again act an Hypocrite’s part? Villain, resign your hopes of pardon. Thus I...

When the devil grows old he turns hermit.

The Devil teaches women what they are – or they would teach it to the Devil if he did not know.

≫Du ved jo, hvad man siger: Når djævelen danser, skriger de i Himlen.≪ Hun lænede sig frem mod ham og tilføjede hviskende: ≫Af grin.≪

There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find

It’s true; most souls come here in whatever clothing they died in, truly unfortunate for the people who died naked. Of course, it’s really worse for us than them. Most people don’t look good without...

According to this account the promise of the devil was fulfilled to the very letter, Adam and Eve did not die, and they did become as gods, knowing good and evil

Leonora Penderton feared neither man, beast, nor the devil; God she had never known.

karmic reassignment”) manages to fall slightly below the level of those undergraduate talk sessions. The Manichean stand-off leads Mailer, in closing, to speculate on what God might desire politically and to say: ‘In different times,...

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

But I do like Scotland. I like the miserable weather. I like the miserable people, the fatalism, the negativity, the violence that’s always just below the surface. And I like the way you deal with...

Devil must really hate me a lot because I consistently refuse to give him an opportunity to win over my soul.

We don’t know the Devil’s side of the story, because God wrote all the books.

The Devil needs a very good lawyer to prove that it is not the Satan but the people themselves who have committed so many evils!

Devil has to offer many diabolical grimaces: One of these caricatures is prejudice, it stirs up hatred.

It was your covenant with the devil to exchange your soul for money and fame, so i won’t be sorry for your damn f***ing soul, and the devil gat no time to refund what you...

Não aprendeste nada, vai-te, dissera o Pastor, e quiçá quisesse dizer que ele não aprendera a defender a vida.

God saves – but not now, and not here. His salvation is on layaway. Like all grifters, He asks you to pay now and take it on faith that you will receive later. Whereas women...

He didn’t care if I hated him, only that I did as I was told.

A woman is a deep Ditch, said he, her House inclines to Death and her Paths unto the Devil

Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made

But life, they said, means life. Dying inside.The Devil was evil, mad, but I was the Devil’s wifewhich made me worse. I howled in my cell.If the Devil is gone then how could this be...