“You knew better than to pay mind to what people and the devil say.”
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“If you lose, there's the devil to pay.”
Source: The Forbidden Game
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Miguel de Cervantes
(1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
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John C. Maxwell
(1947) American author, speaker and pastor
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“Good at a fight, but better at a play;
Godlike in giving, but the devil to pay.”
Thomas Moore
(1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
On a Cast of Sheridan's Hand.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
John Ruskin
(1819–1900) English writer and art critic
Known as the Common Law of Business Balance, this quotation has been widely attributed to Ruskin but has never been sourced to any of his works.
[Shapiro, Fred R., The Yale Book of Quotations, 2006, Yale University Press, New Haven, 657]
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Michel Barnier
(1951) French politician
10 things that stopped Brexit happening https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49008826 BBC News (18 July 2019)
2019
Sherry Argov
(1977) American writer
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“We pay for it by losing all or many of the values we have set out to defend.”
Section 73
The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice
Context: ... though hatred is a convenient instrument for mobilizing a community for defense, it does not, in the long run, come cheap. We pay for it by losing all or many of the values we have set out to defend.
“You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" "That's what you are! You are the devil himself!”
Source: The Queen of the Damned