“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)
“You knew better than to pay mind to what people and the devil say.”
Disaster Tourism.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)
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