James Lee Burke Quotes

I’ve done made a deal with the devil.

When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.

"So you have your price."... "Your soul for a cookie."

I made a deal with the devil for a whole lot of money.

The devil never gave a gift for free.

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

In 'Remember the Night,' love reformed her and corrupted him, which gave us the finely balanced moral that one man's meat is another man's poison.

Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.

When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.

The devil shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs--he will give the devil his due.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

You are going to make choices and decisions that sometimes aren't going to always work in your favor and they are going to upset some other people.

I could sit down and talk with the devil if necessary.

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

Everyone has a price, the important thing is to find out that price

He [Theodore Roosevelt] acted upon the maxim that half a loaf is better than no bread. I believe that half a loaf is fatal whenever it is accepted at the sacrifice of the basic principle sought to be attained.... A half-way measure never fairly tests the principle and many utterly discredit it.

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

Everyone has their price. You just have to find out what it is.

If you start with a compromise, you live with a compromise for a long time.

I will always need to compromise and make choices - you just have to work hard at making the right choice day by day.

Sometimes you do have to accept your second or third choice in order to avoid an outcome you consider to be even worse.

When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who do not rate highly with the world, but through those who are the very best, the wisest, the holiest, and the most learned.

I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.

Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.