Religious fervor makes the devil a very real personage, and anything awe-inspiring or not easily understood is usually connected w...ith him. Perhaps this explains why, not only in the Ozarks but all over the State, his name crops up so frequently.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a Kelton church, when a heated argument once began at morning services, a devout old deacon arose from his seat in the 'amen co...rner' and announced he was going to do for the church what the devil had never done--leave it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I change, and so do women too; But I reflect--which women seldom do.... Tobacco is a filthy weed, That from the devil doth proceed; That drains your purse, that burns your clothes, That makes a chimney of your nose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Upon being asked if, in the primitive Hunterdon County, New Jersey, mountain town where she lived, there was "any distinction of ...color" among the residents]: No, not a bit, The niggers and whites all live together. The whites are just as good as the niggers, and both are as bad as the devil can make 'em.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Devil: I'll tell you what. You want to hedge your bet with me? Make eternity a little less ... hellish? Amanda: What did you ...have in mind? Devil: Did you see Rosemary's Baby?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He remained in the grip of a certain devil whom the modern world knows as self-consciousness, and whom the mediaeval, with dimmer ...vision, worshipped as asceticism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[T]he Congregational minister in a neighboring town definitely stated that 'the same spirit which drove the herd of swine into the... sea drove the Baptists into the water, and that they were hurried along by the devil until the rite was performed.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A witch is one who worketh by the Devil or by some curious art either healing or revealing things secret, or foretelling things to... come which the Devil hath devised to ensnare men's souls withal unto damnation. The conjurer, the enchanter, the sorcerer, the diviner, and whatever other sort there is encompassed within this circle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Government by average opinion is merely a circuitous method of going to the devil; those who profess to lead but in fact slavishly... follow this average opinion are simply the fastest runners and the loudest squeakers of the herd which is rushing blindly down to its destruction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »