“If you lose, there's the devil to pay.”

— L.J. Smith, The Forbidden Game

Source: The Forbidden Game

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American author 1965

Aaron Weiss

Disaster Tourism.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

“Here is the devil-and-all to pay.”

Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 10.

“When you aren’t willing to pay the price of learning by changing you will eventually pay the price of losing.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn

“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)

“It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money — that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot — it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.”

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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“Everybody will have to pay a price - EU and UK - because there is no added value to Brexit. Brexit is a negative negotiation. It is a lose-lose game for everybody.”

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) <br class="br">2019

“Forcing him to talk about feelings all the time will not only make you seem needy, it will eventually make him lose respect. And when he loses respect, he’ll pay even less attention to your feelings.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl-A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

“We pay for it by losing all or many of the values we have set out to defend.”

Eric Hoffer book The True Believer

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.

“What's worse…?
The devil you don't know… or the devil you do?”

Jodi Picoult book Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith

“You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" "That's what you are! You are the devil himself!”

Anne Rice book The Queen of the Damned

Source: The Queen of the Damned

“If you lose, there's the devil to pay.”

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