#devil

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#devil #his #horns #talk

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God. ↗

— Sean Connery

#faith #fear #god #kills #laughter

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! ↗

— Charles Darwin

#clumsy #cruel #devil #horribly #low

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#expect #face #meet #never #our

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil. ↗

— Voltaire

#graces #milton #recommended #sacrifice #sacrificed

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#devil #either #enjoy #fat #get

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. In Baclava it is said Hornprick once caught a glimpse of the First Woman, as she sat singing to her snake in her chamber of sacred mud. Dazzled by her sight, the light of love and lust, he fell. He is still falling. For all eternity her breasts orbit his dreams. ↗

— Rikki Ducornet

#devil #woman #dreams

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#alive #aphrodisiac #completely #detached #devil

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time. ↗

— Kerry Thornley

#long #long time #our #religion #somebody

Anything new is always considered the devil's tool. ↗

— Rip Torn

#anything #considered #devil #new #tool