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"'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it-and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way.'"
"I used to say to myself, 'What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe?' And I'd answer, 'Everything, everything.'"
"I used to say to myself, 'What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe?' And I'd answer, 'Everything, everything,' and I'd walk slowly and turn my head slowly as if I were a queen."
"More details, more devils."
"The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman."
"Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil."
"The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things."
"Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark?"
"If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it."
"I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die."
"Your servant here, he has been told to say it clear, to say it cold: It's over, it ain't going any further And now the wheels of heaven stop you feel the devil's riding crop Get ready for the future: it is murder"
"God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion."
"I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth."
"For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it (life), whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to 'glorify God and enjoy him forever.'"
"A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point."
"At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold."
"And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves."
"The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom"
"Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine."
"We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves."
