“It was no affair for the watch: Satan was at large tonight and Satan seemed to be he who appeared dimly in front, heel over gate, knee over fence. Moreover, the adversary was obviously travelling near home or at least in that section of London consecrated to his coarser whims, for the street narrowed like a road in a picture and the houses bent over further and further, cooping in natural ambushes suitable for murder and its histrionic sister, sudden death.”
"Tarquin of Cheapside"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald 411
American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940Related quotes

“And Satan trembles when he sees
The weakest saint upon his knees.”
No. 29, "Exhortation to Prayer".
Olney Hymns (1779)

“Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.”
"The Inwardness of Non-Co-operation". Quoted in Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches (1922), p. 144 https://books.google.com/books?id=ZRXCAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA144.
1920s

“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”