Top 100 Quotes About Devilish
#1. Devilish men should not be allowed to hold kittens, babies, or bouquets of wildflowers. There ought to be an Act of Parliament.
Tessa Dare
#2. But it seems that Abraxas has a much greater significance. We may look upon the name as that of a deity who had the symbolic task of combining the godlike and the devilish." The
Hermann Hesse
#3. Goodbye, Lord Rohan," she said. The door to Lina's house stood open, the footman waitig patiently. "I don't expect we'll see each other again."
His smile was slow, mocking, irresistibly devilish. "Would you care to wager on that, my love?
Anne Stuart
#4. She had on a blue bonnet, and with a pair of lovely eyes of the same colour, has contrived to make me feel devilish odd about the heart.
Susanna Rowson
#5. Can we just forget that ever happened?"
His smile is devilish. "Not on your life.
M. Leighton
#6. I'm perfectly discriminating,' he said with a devilish smile.
'How's that? No blondes after Labour Day?'
'I said I was discriminating, not an imbecile.
Ally Blake
#7. If he was right, here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a devilish Indian Diamond - bringing after it a conspiracy of living rogues, set loose on us by the vengeance of a dead man.
Wilkie Collins
#8. You would die of boredom in my body." "No, I'd take that young thing out for a spin and liven things up a little." I roll my eyes. "I'm sure you would. You'd have me screwing my way through greater Atlanta." "Breakin' hearts and blowin' minds! Or blowin' something," she says with a devilish wink.
M. Leighton
#10. But what of black women? ... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#11. I told my father I would lay down my life, give all I have to my alpha except one thing, my heart. My heart belongs to my mate." Gabriel shook his head and gave her a devilish grin, "It's rather ironic that my new alpha happens to be my mate and has owned my heart since birth.
Jami Brumfield
#14. There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom.
Friedrich Schiller
#15. The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish.
Sara Sheridan
#16. Call it devilish or divine, but once a man lets a thought become prevalent, it turns into reality.
Felix O. Hartmann
#18. Unlike the Jukel, he had not been raised among the Tigani (Gypsies who inhabited eastern Romania). Revered, protected, and educated. He had been born in the wild. The offspring of a werewolf to werewolf mating. A Ruv Bengalo (devilish wolf).
Shirley A. Martin
#19. All sex, and indeed all pleasure, must include a poisonous drop of perversion, of devilish transgression - of evil, even - for it to be worth getting into bed for.
Hanif Kureishi
#20. No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction
toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat.
Hunter S. Thompson
#21. Whatever you say, sweetheart." He sent her a wink, a devilish one, the same one he no doubt used to sear the panties off his dates.
Jessica Lemmon
#22. Don't worry, you will live through this, his devilish grin flashed for a brief moment before he rocked back onto his heals, closing his eyes in a meditative state.
Benjamin M. Strozykowski
#24. To the pure, all things are pure," Antryg remarked, in Magister Magus' best soothsayer voice, "and to the unimaginative, all things are devilish.
Barbara Hambly
#25. Because Rowdy Yates was that and then some. He was also drop-dead gorgeous in a devilish, careless, edgy way. Where Reese tempered his sex appeal, Rowdy threw it out there without reserve, bludgeoning innocent bystanders with his raw magnetism.
Lori Foster
#26. I'm a devilish kind of person, but I embrace it. I don't try to fight it. It's proven very well for me.
Chelsea Handler
#27. It had been devilish awkward, as the young men say, to be found by Juliana in the dead of night examining the attachment of her bureau; and it had not been less so to have to believe for a good many hours after that it was highly probable I had killed her.
Henry James
#28. Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to destroy the family is perfectly devilish and infamous.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#30. I would never kiss you!" The siren's screech brought me back to the Everneath, and I drew away from Cole.
He had a devilish grin on his face, and he turned toward the siren. "I know. But the real Nik would - if it was to save my life." He looked back at me. "Hey, Nik.
Brodi Ashton
#31. She gave me the most devilish smile and I couldn't help but smile back. We both knew she owned me. Body, heart and soul. And every little thing in between.
Alexa Riley
#32. Very often it seems that people assume that by cutting the wings of others, it becomes easier to love them. They know so little about love that end up creating a perception of love that is devilish and demoniacal. And I end with no other choice but to remain single and let them go.
Robin Sacredfire
#34. To sin is a human business, but to justify sins is a devilish business.
Leo Tolstoy
#35. He was high up now, gazing across to where Montmartre itself gazed out over the city. He was swept along in the wind, admiring the twin steeples of Notre-Dame as he passed, along with the dogged, devilish gargoyles of St. Jacques.
Toby Barlow
#36. He who wishes to gain understanding, must first depart from devilish ways.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#37. A man's wife can hold him devilish uneasy, if she begins to scold and fret, and perplex him, at a time when he has a full load for a railroad car on his mind already.
David Crockett
#38. Is it that the women are to blame; or is it the artificial system of things, under which the normal sex-impulses are turned into devilish domestic gins and springes to noose and hold back those who want to progress?
Thomas Hardy
#39. Venn was like a devilish older sibling, offering that brotherly combination of wholly unreliable and utterly trustworthy.
Tom Rachman
#40. There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.
W. Somerset Maugham
#41. [The wilderness] had caressed him, and - lo! - he had withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of some devilish initiation.
Joseph Conrad
#42. There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.
William Shakespeare
#43. Ever since our first fathers by infection took this morbum sathanicum, this devilish disease, pride, of the devil, such tinder is our nature, that every little spark sets us on fire; our nature hath grown so light, that every little thing puffeth us up, and sets us aloft in our altitudes presently.
Lancelot Andrewes
#44. Peace is not a dream; peace is an option! You either choose peace and prove that you are clever and angelic, or choose war proving that you are stupid and devilish!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can even be utterly devilish! Anything man made is open to all the possibilities except perfection!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#46. This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
James Reston
#47. My father tolerated no dramatics of any kind. I'm not certain which is more devilish uncomfortable - too many emotions or none at all.
Ashley Gardner
#48. He was helpless against his own devilish nature when it came to this girl
Julia Quinn
#49. She seemed exotic and strange, a mysterious siren with devilish companions and spell-caught whorls that gleamed alluringly all over her pearl skin.
Maggie L. Wood
#50. This was the home of the great god Pain, and for the first time I looked through a devilish chink into the depths of his realm. And fresh shells came down all the time.
Ernst Junger
#51. Yes we are devilish; that is true we cackle. Yes we are dark like the soil and wild like the animals. And we turn to each other and stare into this darkness. We find it beautiful. We find this darkness irresistible. We cease all hiding.
Susan Griffin
#52. The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.
Sonya Levien
#53. Whenever God looks devilish, I see the philosopher fail.
Kedar Joshi
#54. This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that assumes the nature of a fiction, an illusion, a devilish apparition. To a greater or lesser extent this applies to all the postcommunist countries.
Andrzej Stasiuk
#56. To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.
Thomas Carlyle
#57. All music should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the soul's refreshment; where this is not remembered there is no real music but only a devilish hubbub.
Johann Sebastian Bach
#58. Women who do not marry wither up - they wither up like aspidistras in back-parlour windows; and the devilish thing is that they don't even know they're withering.
George Orwell
#59. Never confuse the person, formed in the image of God, with the evil that is in him: because evil is but a chance misfortune, an illness, a devilish reverie. But the very essence of the person is the image of God, and this remains in him despite every disfigurement.
John Of Kronstadt
#60. Love is divine and peaceful but hate is devilish and dreadful. So love everyone without judging them, you will be in peace always.
Debasish Mridha
#61. The devil was his most dangerous when he wasn't being devilish.
Gwen Hayes
#62. The most devilish of things can come in the most unassuming of packages,
Micalea Smeltzer
#63. Our worldly wisdom has made us calloused and hard. Our natural wisdom, as the Scriptures teach, comes not from God, but is earthly, sensual, and devilish.
Billy Graham
#64. I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?
George Bernard Shaw
#65. Crossing the room, he stopped infront of me. "I'm not going to bite."
"That's good."
"Unless you want me to," He said with a devilish grin.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#66. In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness.
Marion Bailey
#67. man. The girls thought him charming and devilish, but
Fleur McDonald
#68. Let your passion in life be as conspicuous as the devilish grin on your face.
Lorii Myers
#69. There was a pony named Barbapoppa that I received at the age of five, and he was very mischievous and maybe even devilish. Barbapoppa was the most fabulous first animal I was to have and challenged me much.
Chantal Sutherland
#70. Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!
Henry James
#71. Whatever your objective in life may be, never use violence to get it! Violence belongs to the Land of Evil; once you enter there, your face and your heart is forever sealed with the devilish ugliness of the violence!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#72. You're evil. Did you know that?" She just smiled. "Well I've got to say, you do look
devilish in my shirt.
Shelly Crane
#73. was the only halo I ever wanted again, a circle of wicked wants and devilish delights.
Sierra Simone
#74. Even Colin - the golden boy, the man with the easy smile and devilish humor - had raw spots of his own. He was haunted by unfulfilled dreams and secret insecurities. How unfair she had been when she'd pondered his life, not to allow him his weaknesses.
Julia Quinn
#75. When a state is afraid of the journalists, it means that that state is definitely doing some secret devilish things!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#76. It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.
Saint Augustine
#78. For the Right, strikes are both devilish and pathetic, have both terrible and absolutely no effects.
China Mieville
#79. Sometimes it seems to me that I shall never write out all the books I have in my head, because of the strain. The devilish thing about writing is that it calls upon every nerve to hold itself taut. This is exactly what I cannot do
Virginia Woolf
#80. Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.
Wayne Thiebaud
#81. I don't recall the so-called devilish things I do. But there are considerable amounts.
John Travolta
#82. Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job
Malcolm X
#83. If Iran and North Korea, by some horrible, devilish, nightmarish scenario, got together and went to war at the same time, one against Saudi Arabia and one against South Korea, I don't know what we would do about that. I don't know that we could stop them short of using nuclear weapons.
Ben Stein
#84. There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.
Bruce R. McConkie
#85. It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?
John Masefield
#86. The Church is the Heart, not the amount of Sunday services you attend because many people goes to church but still partake in Devilish acts.
Henry Johnson Jr
#87. The most devilish thing is 8 times 8 and 7 times 7 it is what nature itselfe cant endure.
Marjorie Fleming
#88. He was still dazed, and though she hated to admit it, he was actually rather attractive. If a girl happened to like that square-jaw, bright-blue-eyes, devilish-dimples kind of thing. Although he was in desperate need of a haircut and a good shave.
Marissa Meyer
#90. Curses of vanished elders echoed down on me; too pretty, too soft, too pale, eyes far too full of the Devil, ah, that devilish smile
Anne Rice
#91. Thus proving that books can teach you much, if only to give you a good name for a devilish, smart goat.
Terry Pratchett
#92. Because shoes got by devilish ways will burn your feet.
Langston Hughes
#93. This was never your destiny," he snapped, glaring at me with devilish eyes.
"No," I replied casually, shrugging, "but it's the path I've chosen.
Serena Winter
#94. I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is.
Amanda Plummer
#95. It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings.
E. M. Forster
#96. A few days back someone sent me two feathers. Two bird's feathers in a sheet of note-paper with a coronet, and fastened with a seal. Sent from a place a long way off; from one who need not have sent them back at all. That amused me too, those devilish green feathers.
Knut Hamsun
#97. Face calm and composed, Kellan simply smiled. Taking that as an affirmative response, Tory twisted to face the elevator doors. Behind her back, Kellan flashed me a devilish smile, one that clearly said, Hell if I'm doing any of that.
S.C. Stephens
#98. As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.
James Reston Jr.
#99. Wine?" I asked, ready to order.
"I'd rather have Sex on the Beach." He winked at me with a devilish grin.
J.C. Reed
#100. Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.
Thomas Carlyle