#devil

... Faustus ... dared to confirm he had advanced beyond the level of a scarlet sinner — he was a conscious follower of the Prince of Darkness. The fact he could publicly project an Antichrist image with pride, having no fear of reprisal, and his seeming diabolical art of escaping all punishment when others who were considered heretics had burned at the stake for less, would certainly signal that an unnatural individual walked in their midst. It is true in many respects he assumed the role of the charlatan, yet how apropos, considering his willingness to follow his ‘brother-in-law’ known as the Father of Lies and deception. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#devil #evil #evil-men #evil-people #faust

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#advantages #devil #disagreeable #distance #his

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

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

— Nelson DeMille

#expect #face #meet #never #our

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

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

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#plays #them #treat #truths #trying

There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#devils #eventually #god #gods

The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day. ↗

— Samuel Gompers

#cents #day #devil #everything #hands

We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#devils #made #nor #out #us