# Angelic and demonic maledictions
When in combat with an angel or demon, they will randomly utter maledictions, much like a quest nemesis.
As of NetHack 3.6.5, these are stored in the source code at quest.txt.

Angelic maledictions
"Repent, and thou shalt be saved!"
"Thou shalt pay for thine insolence!"
"Very soon, my child, thou shalt meet thy maker."
"The great 

<deity> has sent me to make you pay for your sins!"
"The wrath of <deity> is now upon you!"
"Thy life belongs to <deity> now!"
"Dost thou wish to receive thy final blessing?"
"Thou art but a godless void."
"Thou art not worthy to seek the Amulet."
"No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
Demonic maledictions
"I first mistook thee for a statue, when I regarded thy head of stone."
"Come here often?"
"Doth pain excite thee? Wouldst thou prefer the whip?"
"Thinkest thou it shall tickle as I rip out thy lungs?"
"Eat slime and die!"
"Go ahead, fetch thy mama! I shall wait."
"Go play leapfrog with a herd of unicorns!"
"Hast thou been drinking, or art thou always so clumsy?"
"This time I shall let thee off with a spanking, but let it not happen again."
"I've met smarter (and prettier) acid blobs."
"Look! Thy bootlace is undone!"
"Mercy! Dost thou wish me to die of laughter?"
"Run away! Live to flee another day!"
The {demon name} casts aspersions on your ancestry.
"Thou hadst best fight better than thou canst dress!"
"Twixt thy cousin and thee, Medusa is the prettier."
"Methinks thou wert unnaturally stirred by yon corpse back there, eh, varlet?"
"Up thy nose with a rubber hose!"
"Verily, thy corpse could not smell worse!"
"Wait! I shall polymorph into a grid bug to give thee a fighting chance!"
"Why search for the Amulet? Thou wouldst but lose it, cretin."

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