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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Doubt
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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.
- Make
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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.
- Man
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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.
- Family
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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.
- Lead
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In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness.
- Heartily
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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. Still, who would not be sick for England?
- Always
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This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
- Always
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This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
- Feel
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