#devil

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#always #being #bravery #courage #cunning

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#devil #favourable #hell #hitler #house

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#god #like #make #money #plague

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#god #like #make #money #plague

I had a very bad time with acid. I did that classic thing of looking in the mirror by mistake and seeing the devil. But I took it several times, because you always think that next time you might have the wonderful time that everyone else is having. ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

#always #bad #bad time #because #classic

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy. ↗

— John Gardner

#devil #editors #exception #fight #incompetent

Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks. ↗

— David Garrick

#devil #good #heaven #meat #sends

Well one of the times I did a stunt was in the devil's snare room and they lifted me up on a harness and a safety rope really, really high, and they just dropped me down into the devil's snare. ↗

— Rupert Grint

#did #down #dropped #harness #high

He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze; he loved the craggy ruins bound together by ivy, those dark halls, and any appearance of death and destruction. Having fallen so far from so high a position, he loved anything that had also fallen from a great height ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#ruins #death

Mary Fisher lives in a High Tower, on the edge of the sea: she writes a great deal about the nature of love. She tells lies. ↗

— Faye Weldon

#jealousy #love #revenge #she-devil #jealousy