“When a devil, but also a saint, laughs about your poetry, you laugh about his ignorance!”
Menotti Lerro (1980) Italian poet
Donna Giovanna, Act IV, scene iii.
“There was a laughing devil in his sneer.”
Canto I, stanza 9.
The Corsair (1814)
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
A good Time going; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“When the poor give to the rich, the devil laughs.”
Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1571) Florentine sculptor and goldsmith
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Quando il povero dona al ricco il Diavolo se ne ride?
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Autobiography, vol. 1, ch. 4
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 3.
“No man is a devil in his own mind.”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.”
William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice
Source: The Merchant of Venice
“The Devil turns his back to a door that is shut.”
James Howell (1594–1666) Anglo-Welsh historian and writer
Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)
Carol Ann Duffy (1955) British writer and professor of contemporary poetry
Interviewed in The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/aug/31/featuresreviews.guardianreview8, August 31, 2002.