Quotes About Devilish

So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.

There was a pony named Barbapoppa that I received at the age of five, and he was very mischievous and maybe even devilish. Barbapoppa was the most fabulous first animal I was to have and challenged me much.

Never tell me, by the way, that the dead look peaceful. Most of the corpses I have seen looked devilish.

To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.

This was the home of the great god Pain, and for the first time I looked through a devilish chink into the depths of his realm. And fresh shells came down all the time.

Our worldly wisdom has made us calloused and hard. Our natural wisdom, as the Scriptures teach, comes not from God, but is earthly, sensual, and devilish.

The devilish qualities, not always limited to masks, were awake and stirring.

Love is divine and peaceful but hate is devilish and dreadful. So love everyone without judging them, you will be in peace always.

She seemed like a nightmare of Lucy as she lay there, the pointed teeth, the blood stained, voluptuous mouth, which made one shudder to see, the whole carnal and unspirited appearance, seeming like a devilish mockery of Lucy's sweet purity.

Is it that the women are to blame; or is it the artificial system of things, under which the normal sex-impulses are turned into devilish domestic gins and springes to noose and hold back those who want to progress?

It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

labyrinths. The protection is so complete as to turn back all that is devilish and undesirable.

Peace is not a dream; peace is an option! You either choose peace and prove that you are clever and angelic, or choose war proving that you are stupid and devilish!

The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.

Ever since our first fathers by infection took this morbum sathanicum, this devilish disease, pride, of the devil, such tinder is our nature, that every little spark sets us on fire; our nature hath grown so light, that every little thing puffeth us up, and sets us aloft in our altitudes presently.

For the early English farmer, the world around was full of spiritual beings, half divine, half devilish.

If he was right, here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a devilish Indian Diamond - bringing after it a conspiracy of living rogues, set loose on us by the vengeance of a dead man.

For the Right, strikes are both devilish and pathetic, have both terrible and absolutely no effects.

To sin is a human business, but to justify sins is a devilish business.

There are few successful conspiracies, and human behavior is far better explained through incompetence, cowardice and inefficiency than through the suspicion of devilish plans.

Devilish rogues, the newspapers," said Claparon. "Monsieur, the newspapers do all the mischief. They are useful sometimes, but they keep me awake many a night. I wish they didn't. I have put my eyes out reading and ciphering.

All things from the north are devilish.

Next to the ague, curiosity is the most devilish affliction a body can be stung with. It's the most humanizing thing next to being born and can't be resisted....

She seemed exotic and strange, a mysterious siren with devilish companions and spell-caught whorls that gleamed alluringly all over her pearl skin.