#devil

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?" ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#behind #devil #first #had #heart

The important information you need at the beginning of an issue. Like way they did the old Frank Miller Daredevil issues in the first five pages he always had to state his origins and how he got his powers. ↗

— Robert Kirkman

#beginning #daredevil #did #first #five

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#devils #even #hardly #his #man

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity. ↗

— Michael Servetus

#destruction #devil #falsity #infernal #invention

If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ↗

— Ben Stein

#dust #fools #god #hit #i

The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#devil #exterminated #fitting #form #human

The devil frequently fills our thoughts with great schemes, so that instead of putting our hands to what work we can do to serve our Lord, we may rest satisfied with wishing to perform impossibilities. ↗

— Teresa of Ávila

#devil #satan #satisfaction #satisfaction

…breaking the heart of someone you still love is a rare horror, not funny to anyone, except perhaps Satan…and even his pleasure would be spoiled by not having had a hand in it, by the dumb, wasteful accident of the thing. The Devil wants meaning just like the rest of us. ↗

— Glenn Duncan

#love #meaning #the-devil #funny

For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her. ↗

— Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

#fools #god #love #paris #love

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#laughter #religion #satan #the-devil #business