I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.
I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.
What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new?
You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.
The very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer.
Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in.
The devil doesn't wear prada; I'm clearly in a -- white tee.
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
Remember that the truth is in the details. No matter how you see the world or what style it imposes on your work as an artist, the truth is in the details. Of course the devil's there, too-everyone says so-but maybe truth and the devil are words for the same thing. It could be you know.
You've got to be good or as bad as the devil.
Something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil.
We've got to remember the Book says the devil "walketh about the earth to and fro seeking who he may devour", and he nearly got me and he had me for a while. It didn't mean that I was no longer a Christian or that God had disowned me.
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
The devil considers all misplaced trust as devil worship, for he hides himself in its shadows.
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.
The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.
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.
Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss
The Devil. . . is much better served by exploiting our virtues than by appealing to our lower passions; consequently, it is when the Devil looks most noble and reasonable that he is most dangerous.
