The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
“When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register. ”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 11
To Leon Goldensohn (14 February 1946) from The Nuremberg Interviews (2004) by Leon Goldensohn and Robert Gellately
“A witty woman is a devil at intrigue.”
Une femme d'esprit est un diable en intrigue.
L'École des Femmes (1662), Act III, sc. iii
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
"Adventures of Isabel" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/adventures-of-isabel/
“God became a man, granted. The devil became a woman.”
Dieu s'est fait homme; soit. Le diable s'est fait femme!
Ruy Blas (1838), Act II, Scene V http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Ruy_Blas#ACTE_2_SCENE_5
The Choice
Context: Nay, come up hither. From this wave-wash'd mound
Unto the furthest flood-brim look with me;
Then reach on with thy thought till it be drown'd.
Miles and miles distant though the last line be,
And though thy soul sail leagues and leagues beyond,—
Still, leagues beyond those leagues, there is more sea.
“Woman to Devil) I want to refinance my soul. (Devil) You’re going to take a bath on points. (p.78”
Sylvia cartoon strip
“A woman being never at a loss… the devil always sticks by them.”
Source: Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals,
