The Devil Quotes

All governments are, to a certain extent, a treaty with the Devil.

You have to make doubt and devils obey you. Don't ever treat the devil nice. Treat him mean and tell him what to do.

The devil doesn't stay where there is music.

The devil has his elect.

A sour religion is the devil's religion.

Wealth is the Conjurer's Devil, Whom, when he thinks he hath, the Devil hath him.

Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.

Fear is the only way to greet the devil.

The devil does not tempt unbelievers and sinners who are already his own.

I hate people who say 'Just to play devil's advocate.'

God made food; the devil the cooks.

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

If you sell your soul to the devil, you get more grain.

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.

Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance.

The fight against Jewish world Bolshevization requires a clear attitude toward Soviet Russia. You cannot drive out the Devil with Beelzebub.

Hurry is not of the devil; hurry is the devil.

Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.

Black coffee’s a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin’s. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.

Lust is the devil's counterfeit for love. There is nothing more beautiful on earth than a pure love and there is nothing so blighting as lust.

The devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one.

The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil.

I feel like if you're in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan.

I have sold my soul to the devil.

I pray to the angels that worship the devil.

I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man is still fairly sober as long as he knows he's drunk.

Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

Haste is of the devil. Slowness is of God.

We are the living devils.

The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not.

Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them. And its snap split the world in two.

I sold my soul to the devil in L.A. He said 'sign your name here on the dotted line and your songs they all will play.'

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.

I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.

Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather.

Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.

Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.

I have no doubts that the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my “literary” sins – The other kind don’t matter.

The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which makes all hell shake.

Devil wanted to play cricket. So Ravindra Jadeja was born.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

Our refusal to fear reminds the devil that he is finished!

When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.

The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.

The devil never sleeps.

You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.