Sydney J. Harris Quotes

The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.

The Bible teaches that all sin begins with sinful thinking.

[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.

The Devil may also make use of morality.

You go up to the devil and ask if he knows he's a sinner and he'll say, "Well, yes I am! And a mighty fine one at that!"

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.

You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.

You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.

And I flirted with the devil and he dealt me a card. He told me that you will never win. So I sold my soul to the devil. I never thought it could be this bad. And I got the devil takin' me away

When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds shutters all coated with iron and bolted inside. At last he sees a little window in a chamber. He cannot get in, so he puts a little boy in, that he may go round and open the back door. So the devil has always his little sins to carry about with him to go and open back doors for him, and we let one in and say, 'O, it is only a little one.' Yes, but how that little one becomes the ruin of the entire man!

I took whatever the devil offered me.

I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

Where dance is, there is the devil.

A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the lord in vain- then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?

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

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

There is no disease so destructive as lust.

You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew.

The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them that the great evil of sin, induces a crisis of guilt by which “God is satisfied," and after that he lets them spend the rest of their lives meditating on the intense sinfulness and evident reprobation of other men.

There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.

I called out to God, but the devil keeps answering.

There was no point in waiting until the next world. You had to do everything now, every kind of sin.

Be warned, therefore, that one does not go to hell to light a cigarette.