James Russell Lowell Quotes About Devil

Quotes about: Devil

• The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

  James Russell Lowell

  Hypocrisy, Devil, Intolerance

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.83

• At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

  James Russell Lowell

  Devil, Gold, Cost

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.282, Delphi Classics

• He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Crush, Christian, Spiritual

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

• A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point.

  James Russell Lowell

  Hands, Devil, Poison

  James Russell Lowell (1846). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.58

• If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

  James Russell Lowell

  Father, Devil, Shapes

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.229

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