"If Hitler invaded Hell, I'd find something nice to say about the Devil himself."
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"God made solids, but surfaces were the work of the devil."
"But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him."
"The Devil invented gambling."
"Books make dangerous devils out of women."
"God became man, granted. The devil became a woman."
"If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil."
"Steam was till the other day the devil which we dreaded. Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover, to let off the enemy, lest he should lift pot and roof and carry the house away."
"And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it." MARTIN LUTHER, Against the Roman Papacy, An Institution of the Devil London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day."
"Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market."
"All the devils respect virtue."
"Never whine about the French. It's considered a sign of weakness to even acknowledge their existence. Remember: The poor devils haven't won anything since they rebuffed the Kaiser at Marne. Irritating the world into submission is their only hope. Ignore them when you can, agree with them when you can't - but never, ever make eye contact. Particularly after dark."
"It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers"
"God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest."
"The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers."
"Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie."
"I don't generally watch the movie [ The House Of The Devil ]. It's sort of like hearing your voice on tape."
"Sometimes the names were humiliating, deliberately so. Somebody would pick out your flaw. If you were little, they would call you Shorty. And if you were angry, they would call you the Devil."
"Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?"
"The Devil would be the best way out as an excuse for God; in that way he would be playing the same part as an agent of economic discharge as the Jew does in the world of the Aryan ideal. But even so, one can hold God responsible for the existence of the Devil just as well as for the existence of the wickedness which the Devil embodies."