Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.

They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

For the will and not the gift makes the giver.

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.

Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell.

The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.

The superstition in which we grew up, Though we may recognize it, does not lose Its power over us.-Not all are free Who make mock of their chains.

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

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

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

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

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God.

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.

For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing.

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

When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.

Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.

I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

Why should the Devil have all the good tunes?

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

The devil says I'm out, but the Lord says I'm safe.