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"I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person living in this mad world has had the daring to go straight for it all and send it flying to the devil! I...I wanted to have the daring...and I killed her."
"You are the devil to talk to, Rachel," he said curtly. "Will you shut up and listen?"
"Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]"
"Luscious, aren't I, poppet? Go on, stare. I don't mind.” -“You look like a Dracula porn movie reject” -“Let‟s not speak of him. Like the devil, Vlad might appear if we do.” Denise & Ian"
"Don't fret, Grannie. We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil out of her"
"Charlie whistled "Amazing Grace" as he drove. It was all I could do not to whip my head around and snap, Are you kidding me? Couldn't he pick something more appropriate, like "Shout at the Devil" or "Don't fear the Reaper"? Some people had no sense of the proper music for a kidnapping."
"I'll miss you forever.' Blake - Devil To Pay"
"The soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you. The soul would be no good to the devil if it could be destroyed. And it is not lost when placed in Satan's care, as is so often said. He always know exactly how to put his finger on it."
"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 offer a different sort of salvation, more immediate and fulfilling. They don't put off their love for a distant, ill-defined eternity but make a gift of it in the here and now, frequently to those who deserve it least. So it was in my case. So it is for many. The devil and woman have been allies against God from the beginning."
"There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy."
"When toward the Devil's Hose we tread, Woman's a thousand steps behind. [Ger., Denn geht es zu des Bosen Haus Das Weib hat tausend Schritt voraus.]"
"If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too."
"Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere."
"An atheist has got one point beyond the devil."
"The devil will give up when he sees that you are not going to give in."
"That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green."
"The devil flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God."
"God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil, the world, and our own flesh delude and draw us away from the true faith, and throw us into superstition, distrust, despair, and other grievous sins and wickedness; and that, if we should be tempted therewith even to the highest degree, we still may conquer, and at last triumph over them."
"And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us."
"Once sure that the doctrine we teach is God's Word, once certain of this, we may build thereupon, and know that this cause shall and must remain; the devil shall not be able to overthrow it, much less the world be able to uproot it, how fiercely soever it rage."
