"To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage."

"I have always said, the first Whig was the Devil"

"The trouble with a mask is it never changes"

"It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance"

"The Devil's hand directs our every move - / the things we loathed become the things we love"

"The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance."

"After such mornings he returned to the show with relief. It eased him to push through the crowds of people. The noise, the rank stinks, the shouldering contact of human flesh soothed his jangled nerves."

"The world is certainty a sudden place."

"I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil."

"I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil."

Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is,.....

The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?

“Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.”

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

Ceasing to do evil, cultivating the good, purifying the heart: this is the teaching of the Buddhas.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.