"I'm pretty, but not beautiful. I sin, but I'm not the devil. I'm good, but I'm not an angel."
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"I made a deal with the devil for a whole lot of money."
"I’m a serious-minded and intense little devil – terribly gauche and so tense that I don’t see how people can stay in the same room as me. I know I couldn’t tolerate myself."
"In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother"
"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."
"When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness."
"Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal"
"I've got the blues in my heart, and the devil in my fingers."
"Give the devil his due."
"I trust everyone. I just don't trust the devil inside them."
"Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you."
"Hello Satan, it's time to go. Me and the devil, walkin' side by side."
"Solicitude for material things distracts the soul and divides it. The devil seizes the divided soul and drags it to hell."
"Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables."
"I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for him"
"The devil's most devilish when respectable."
"If you aim at a Scottish presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy, as God and the devil. ... No bishop, no King! I will make them conform themselves, or else I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse."
"The devil is not as black as he is painted."
"Rarely is any good done without difficulty; the devil is too subtle and the world too corrupt not to attempt to nip such a good work in the bud"
"To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil."