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The Devil was sick,--the Devil a monk would be;
The Devil was well,--the devil a monk was he.

François Rabelaisc

Needs must when the Devil drives.

François Rabelaisc

Scampering as if the Devil drove them.

François Rabelaisc

Speak the truth and shame the Devil.

François Rabelaisc

What is got over the Devil's back is spent under the belly.

François Rabelaisc

You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand to.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

They must needs go whom the Devil drives.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Here is the devil-and-all to pay.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

What the devil did he want in that galley?

Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière

Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.

Alain René Le Sage

Resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.

New Testament

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary, the Devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.

New Testament

The world, the flesh, and the devil.

Book of Common Prayer

Renounce the Devil and all his works.

Book of Common Prayer

Perhaps the Cathars were right and the flesh and the devil were one

There's a devil in all of us. We are full of self-contradictions

There's a devil in all of us. We are full of self-contradiction

The law became what it is - a bitter joke at which only the devil laughs

The devil has his best chance among the ignorant, the deprived, the homeless, the jobless

That man does not properly understand the nature of sin, thanks to the blinding power of the devil, in no way mitigates the horror of the impact of sin on the pure radience of God

Brutality for its own sake is the mark of the devil

The devil's a real tough customer

I love him because he is a human soul, and I regret that his pure humanity, which issued from the hand of a God in whom he does not believe, has been so foully sullied by the devils of greed and power which have clearly taken possession of him. I would like to purge him of those devils, but, in his perversity, he is happy to be possessed.

Let him be damned, let the devils of pride and lust and stupidity devour him

Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of hand on hand, or mouth on mouth.

Tennessee Williams

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