Peter Shaffer Quotes

There is a devil, and he knows my name.

Never forget that the devil is there 24/7 too. He's very, very busy.

You don't think of the devil who's inside.

Satan works through human agents.

I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination.

The Devil, of course, must have been or must be a very charming person.

Because my dad's Chinese-American, and they're very concrete, he said, 'There's no money to be made in literature.' So he told me to go into the sciences. And I was a good girl. And I did what Daddy said. And that's how I ended up being a doctor. But you know, you just can't stamp out that desire to tell stories.

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

My dad was Superman to me, and in my mind he always will be.

My dad was a mechanical engineer and a drummer. We had no money, but I never felt we had no money, and that's what I remember now, having my own child. I think, 'Oh so what?' Kids don't go around the house seeing what's wrong with it.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

When I was young, my parents were these titanic, infallible figures. But Mum's illness and Dad's battles with diabetes and heart attacks had a ripple effect on me - reminding me of my own mortality and that these illnesses are genetic.

The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man.

The devil wanders into my soul.

Dreaming be damned, this is control. Raping your soul, devil's hole.

So now the devil's in my soul.

My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.

Nick looks into Brians hollow gaze. That's what's going on here brian. The devil's figured out a way to keep peoples souls trapped here on earth.

That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.

The Devil is not afraid to sit on an altar.

The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good.

You never know when the devil might come calling.

When you know your mom and dad are doing things that are not idyllic, as far as your desire to defer to a parental ideal, you start to see your parents as peers, perhaps, and that's not the healthiest thing at that early an age.

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

The devil comes to bring a fate you couldn't imagine in your wildest dream.