I started an e-mail thread at work (because I am so industrious) on the best quotes about Satan, or in general the notion of a personification of ultimate evil (David Warner from
Time Bandits didn't make the cut, but you get the idea). Here's what we've come up with so far.
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"What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he's around? Nobody is going to be taken in if he has a long, red, pointy tail. No. I'm semi-serious here. He will look attractive and he will be nice and helpful and he will get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation and he will never do an evil thing... he will just bit by little bit lower standards where they are important. Just coax along flash over substance... Just a tiny bit. And he will talk about all of us really being salesmen. And he'll get all the great women."
Albert Brooks,
Broadcast News______
"Did you really expect to conjure up the devil and ask him to behave?"
Agent Mulder, The X-Files (Die Hand Der Verletz)
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"The Devil is a low motherfucker, jack."
Richard Pryor______
"Who's that goat-legged fellow? I like the cut of his jib."
Mr. Burns,
Simpsons Treehouse of Horror IV (via Ann All)
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Calvin: "Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man?"
Hobbes: "I'm not sure man needs the help."
Bill Watterson______
"It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist."
Pierre Charles Baudelaire______
"I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him."
Saint Teresa of Avila______
"They that worship God merely from fear, Would worship the devil too, if he appear."
Thomas Fuller
