Top 210 Devour Quotes & Sayings

Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour.

I used to devour biographies of people like Natalie Wood and Marilyn.

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

Power just makes you reject destiny and devour your fate.

Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.

I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.

All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.

Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections

Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.

There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

I would much rather devour a piece of well-seasoned squash than a slice of an animal's rotting carcass.

I am a great movie buff, and I devour films regularly.

I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to engage deeply or you'd go mad.

Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.

Survival is my primary instinct...it's out of my control. It's stronger than me. It's an outside force, a voice that says 'do this for your life or it will devour you.'

I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.

The others wolves would devour me if they could know that my roar is, in reality, a crying.

At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are alarmed by their desire to devour others.

Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.

Trying is fine. Failing is inevitable. Don’t let it devour you.

There is a point at which methods devour themselves.

People say 'chick lit,' and what they mean is 'crap.' And so even though you might sell 100,000 copies of a book, you're never going to win a prize. These are books that people don't just read, they devour them - they stay up into the early hours because they want to devour them.

War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all.

They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.

The hearings are just like a snake about to devour people.

My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour.

Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone. -Hobbes

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

1 Peter 5 - Be well balanced because Satan 'roams about like a hungry lion seeking who he can devour.

We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured.

Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.

Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

There was reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, might devour in turn each one of her children.

Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.

Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.

I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the exercise of their fascinating gift and their insincerity.

Scientific studies about relationships fascinate me, and I devour them hungrily, especially when they give big, fancy-sounding names to everyday experiences.

The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.

Let my enemies devour each other.

All revolutions devour their own children.

...like a predator about to devour the target.

The Bengal tiger always has his tail up, ready to devour the opposition.

I used to devour a lot of stand-up comedy in my cousin's basement. He had cable and I didn't, so I went there and saw all the comedians.

For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.

I know they are naught things, but I devour novels.” (p. 57).

The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.

For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life.

I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels.

A wolf eats sheep but now and then, ten Thousands are devour'd by Men.

I don't devour huge amounts of television. I'm more naturally inclined to watch movies, but given my job, I need to have an understanding of what's on TV.

Satan is a "roaring lion, [who] walketh about, seeking whom he may devour." And he will devour us unless we "put on the whole armour [or power] of God, that we may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil." (See 1 Peter 5 and Ephesians 6)

They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.

There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it.

Many of us are hunting mice - while lions devour the land.

Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.