Devilish Quotes
On mischief, skill, and the pull of the strangely appealing.
The word "devilish" does a lot of work across these quotes, describing everything from the hardship black women have endured with fierce resilience to a genuinely good homemade borscht recipe. One quote even uses it to complain about a long, uncomfortable trip to a naval base.
A cravat has to be approached with consummate self-confidence and a devilish nonchalance. A cravat has to be grasped by a man who knows how to treat a cravat.
But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
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I do a devilish borscht, and I'm very good at pickles. I used to make jars and jars of sweet-and-sour pickled cucumbers.
The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.
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Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to destroy the family is perfectly devilish and infamous.
In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness.
It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home....
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
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Women as mothers grapple with corresponding contradictions. The adoration they feel for their grown daughters, mixed with the sense of responsibility for their well-being, can be overwhelming, matched only by the hurt they feel when their attempts to help or...
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Another explores the darker idea of a devilish fascination with the ugly, the pull people feel toward things that unsettle them. For a similar playful tone, see About or Consummate quotes.
