“I've sold my soul to the devil.”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
On the commercial success of the Beatles, as quoted in Lennon (1985) by Ray Coleman
Sylvia cartoon strip
“I've sold my soul to the devil.”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
On the commercial success of the Beatles, as quoted in Lennon (1985) by Ray Coleman
Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 11
Tad Williams (1957) novelist
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Stone of Farewell (1990), Chapter 14, “A Crown of Fire” (p. 342).
“A witty woman is a devil at intrigue.”
Molière (1622–1673) French playwright and actor
Une femme d'esprit est un diable en intrigue.
L'École des Femmes (1662), Act III, sc. iii
“I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.”
Anne Rice book The Vampire Lestat
Source: The Vampire Lestat
Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) American author
"Beyond the Black River" (1935)
Context: "There's nothing in the universe cold steel won't cut," answered Conan. "I threw my ax at the demon, and he took no hurt, but I might have missed in the dusk, or a branch deflected its flight. I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by."
Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
Source: The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath (2019), Chapter 13 (p. 136)