Then the green man’s face grew even blacker, the red beard so red it seemed to crackle and sparkle like fir twigs on the fire; the mouth contracted to an arrow-like point before it opened to inquire in the sweetest, gentlest tones.
Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age.
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Harley King
Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew faint, the hint of a whisper. 'In the end pride is the only evil, the root of all sins.'' Pride is all I have.
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Mark Lawrence
Becuse God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.
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Jennifer Donnelly
I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.
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Graham Greene
For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her.
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Jules Barbey DAurevilly
More Quotes By Jeremias Gotthelf
For where belief dwells, the spider may not stir, neither by day nor by night.
Hard by the church stood the public house; so often the two are closely conjoined, honorably sharing both joys and sorrows.
Then the green man’s face grew even blacker, the red beard so red it seemed to crackle and sparkle like fir twigs on the fire; the mouth contracted to an arrow-like point before it opened to inquire in the sweetest, gentlest tones.
