Devilry Quotes

#1. Our moral frailty is a strange consolation.

Jen Pollock Michel

#2. I don't think people who have children are acting selfishly or unselfishly. Having a child who'll be loved, to parents who love each other, is the important thing.

Terry Jones

#3. When German companies take over firms in India, it is seen as normal. When an Indian buys one or two firms in Germany, that is something special.

Tulsi Tanti

#4. The French always seemed to be so chic. The food was better, the clothes were better, the makeup was better, the hair was better. Everything was better in France.

Helen Mirren

#5. The Americans will never solve the Indian problem till the Indian is extinct. They have treated them after a fashion which has intensified their treachery and 'devilry' as enemies, and as friends reduces them to a degraded pauperism, devoid of the very first elements of civilization.

Isabella Bird

#6. So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.

Laurie Anderson

#7. My first intervention is to say, when your baby is born, just don't jump on your kid at night," Cohen says, "Give your baby a chance to self-soothe, don't automatically respond, even from birth.

Pamela Druckerman

#8. The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.

Joan Collins

#9. We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology
iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency.

Leonard Ravenhill

#10. No one like you has ever loved someone like me. That's all.

Trish Marie Dawson

#11. Fancies find room in the strongest minds. Here, in a churchyard old as civilization, in the worst of weathers, was a strange woman of curious fascinations never seen elsewhere: there might be some devilry about her presence.

Thomas Hardy

#12. Believe that severity, violence, slavery, danger in the street and in the heart, secrecy, stoicism, tempter's art and devilry of every kind, - that everything wicked, terrible, tyrannical, predatory, and serpentine in man, serves as well for the elevation of the human species as its opposite

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.

George J. Mitchell

#14. So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.

John Frusciante

#15. He can talk about the future all he wants, but it's not going to wait for him to start.

Leah Raeder

#16. To me, the only good reason to be touring is if you still have something good to share instead of just revisiting past glories.

John Darnielle

#17. [...] But do you know what I have in mind, Kate?'
She shook her head. 'Devilry, no doubt,' she muttered.
'I'm going to drive you mad,' he said conversationally. 'I'm going to kiss you and tease you and taste you... and leave. And then I'll come back and do the same thing again. And again.

Eloisa James

#18. Theft is a fundamental of devilry, beach rat.

Ray Litt

#19. Money, you think, is the sole motive to pains and hazard, deception and devilry, in this world. How much money did the devil make by gulling Eve?

Herman Melville

#20. Dill was a villain's villain: he could get into any character part assigned him, and appear tall if height was part of the devilry required.

Harper Lee