Best devil & cunning Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop at them; But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in Wonder to wait on treason and on murder; And whatsoever cunning fiend it was That wrought upon thee so preposterously Hath got the voice in hell for excellence.”

Two Together Purpose Causes Waiting Voice Natural Wonder Hell Devil Murder Excellence Thee Proportion Admiration Cunning Traitor Treason Yoke

Book:King Henry V: Third Series

Source: King Henry V: Third Series

“The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche.”

Stills Creatures Devil Subconscious Cunning Cellars

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.”

Grows Loses Honest Drink Devil Sober Cunning

Book:The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

Source: The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

“The devil comes and soon my subconscious and conscious might start to brawl. As this cunning demon takes me as its voodoo doll.”

Might Conscious Devil Demon Take Me Subconscious Cunning Dolls Voodoo

Author:Fergie

“Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and odium of being slave-holders.”

Wisdom Politics Economy Trouble Benefits Devil Conscience Advantage Slave Liberalism Devices Expenses Wages Cunning

Book:Seeking the Truth: An Orestes Brownson Anthology

Source: Seeking the Truth: An Orestes Brownson Anthology

“The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.”

Spiritual Devil Cunning Lunatic Plausible

Book:The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement: On Dante and Other Writers

Source: The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement: On Dante and Other Writers

“All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.”

Trying Tears Devil Cunning

Book:What Luther says: an anthology

Source: What Luther says: an anthology

“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.”

Mind Humans Might Political Jesus Speak Devil Universal Bravery Intellect Tendencies Human Mind Fierce Cunning

Author:Lydia M. Child

“People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange”

People Men Lost Fear Saws Wise Strange Losing Devil Servant Witch Burned Unfortunate Cunning Wise Women Cunning Man

Author:Neil Gaiman

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