# The Devil in Massachusetts

- Author: [Marion L. Starkey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marion-l-starkey.md)
- Quotes: 11
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/marion-l-starkey/the-devil-in-massachusetts

## Quotes

> Treat a child like a witch and you’ll have one.

p. 152 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marion-l-starkey/the-devil-in-massachusetts/treat-a-child.md)

> At such moments the voice of reason always sounds like blasphemy and dissenters are of the devil.

p. 102 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marion-l-starkey/the-devil-in-massachusetts/at-such-moments.md)

> It’s bad business meddling with the devil; it makes you superstitious.

p. 18 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marion-l-starkey/the-devil-in-massachusetts/its-bad-business.md)

> Being ignored was a therapy that had rarely been tried upon these girls.

p. 223 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marion-l-starkey/the-devil-in-massachusetts/being-ignored-was.md)

> If such were the will of God, what wonder that so many had turned to the devil?

p. 248 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marion-l-starkey/the-devil-in-massachusetts/if-such-were.md)

> A fact will often show poor and plain in contrast to the leapings of imagination.

p. 205 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marion-l-starkey/the-devil-in-massachusetts/a-fact-will.md)

> People at large were not enjoying an intellectual awakening where so recently they had succumbed to superstitious panic.

p. 221 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marion-l-starkey/the-devil-in-massachusetts/people-at-large.md)

> As every minister knows, a prayer is a superb device for airing an opinion.

p. 72 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marion-l-starkey/the-devil-in-massachusetts/as-every-minister.md)

> Silence may have an eloquence of its own, but only in the long run.

p. 215 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marion-l-starkey/the-devil-in-massachusetts/silence-may-have.md)

> Technicalities are, however, of more interest to historians than to contemporaries.

p. 268 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marion-l-starkey/the-devil-in-massachusetts/technicalities-are-however.md)

> Yes, he had been loyal to his friends, but even a wolf is loyal to other wolves.

p. 262 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marion-l-starkey/the-devil-in-massachusetts/yes-he-had.md)