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Quotes About Diabolical

Whether the origin of 'A Course In Miracles' is diabolical or merely psychological, the book proclaimed an anti-gospel of unreality and bred a cult of self-satisfaction for which Marianne Williamson has served as chief apostle.
~ Michael J. Knowles
120 journées is a diabolically ingenious machine which simultaneously inverts the reality of Sade's situation and subverts the morality that justified it.
~ Ronald Hayman
in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time......I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind.....
~ Anais Nin
The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or unlimited sovereignty, or absolute power, is the same in a majority of a popular assembly, an aristocratical council, an oligarchical junto, and a single emperor. Equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody, and in every respect diabolical.
~ John Adams
Thank you," said Himmler, who found the Windows file management system a diabolical confoundment. And they accuse me of crimes against humanity, he thought as he settled himself in at his desk. Wilhelm Gates, you are a beast, and your family will pay. His
~ John Birmingham
Liberalism is like this: Purporting to offer a middle ground between radical individualism and collectivism, what it really gives us is a diabolical synthesis of the two, a bureaucratically managed libertinism.
~ Edward Feser
There are strange friendships," Dostoevsky writes, with reference to Stepan Trofimovich and Varvara Petrovna in Demons. "Two friends are almost ready to eat each other, they live like that all their lives, and yet they cannot part. Parting is even impossible: the friend who waxes capricious and breaks it off will be the first to fall sick and die." A marvelous passage, communicating so economically the diabolical undercurrent of certain friendships, their weird fatalism.
~ Elif Batuman
Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.
~ Ruth Hurmence Green
A real devil among devils.
~ Anne Rice
Then he curled his tongue around her clit and Nia could have sworn she saw lights exploding. Her breath caught in her lungs, the muscles in her body went rigid. Nothing, absolutely nothing seemed to exist except for the way that man was teasing her closer and closer to climax, using his tongue in a way that was nothing short of diabolical.
~ Shiloh Walker
The obsession with sorcery in Charles's case reflected a rising belief in the occult and demonic. Times of anxiety nourish belief in conspiracies of evil, which in the 14th century were seen as the work of persons or groups with access to diabolical aid.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.
~ Robyn Hitchcock
The 'Total Information Awareness' project is truly diabolical - mostly because of the legal changes which have made it possible in the first place. As a consequence of the Patriot Act, government now has access to all sorts of private and commercial databases that were previously off limits.
~ John Perry Barlow
Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.
~ Ruth Hurmence Green
World War II was a trauma that paralysed writers. It was something metaphysical, diabolical.
~ A. B. Yehoshua
There was a diabolical effrontery in her fiery eyes, the heavy eyelids that drooped suggestively, persuasively, and the young man felt himself weakening beneath the silent willpower of this woman who was asking him to commit a crime.
~ Gustave Flaubert
I shook my head. "And I thought you were a genius when I saw your paintings." "Really?" She seemed caught off guard by the compliment. "Really." She cleared her throat. "And now that you see how deceptive I can be?" "I think you're a diabolical genius." Natalie
~ Harlan Coben
I shook my head. "And I thought you were a genius when I saw your paintings." "Really?" She seemed caught off guard by the compliment. "Really." She cleared her throat. "And now that you see how deceptive I can be?" "I think you're a diabolical genius." Natalie liked that. "You can't fault me. That Lars guy is like human Ambien. He opens his mouth, I'm out." "I'm
~ Harlan Coben
Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.
~ Phillip Adams
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Resistance is diabolical. It can harness our drive for greatness and our instinct for professionalism and yoke them, instead, to a shadow profession, whose demands will keep us from turning our energies toward their true course.
~ Steven Pressfield
I love playing bad guys; they're always much more fun than the good guy.
~ Grant Bowler
Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli! deliriously howled Ahab, as the malignant iron scorchingly devoured the baptismal blood.
~ Herman Melville
NiosÅ'a obrzydliwe, niepokojÄ…co ?óÅ'te kwiaty. Diabli wiedzÄ…, jak siÄ™ te kwiaty nazywajÄ…, ale sÄ… to pierwsze kwiaty, jakie siÄ™ wiosnÄ… pokazujÄ… w Moskwie. Te kwiaty rysowaÅ'y siÄ™ bardzo wyraziÅ›cie na tle jej czarnego pÅ'aszcza.
~ Michai? Bu?hakow