The Devil Quotes

I was always rather nasty. I was willing to be friends with the Devil, just to cross the bridge.

New level, New devil.

Spiritual pride is the worst of all pride, if it is not the worst snare of the devil. The heart is peculiarly deceitful on just this one thing.

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

You're like the devil with horns in your head, the only way I'll get you is to get you in bed.

Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils.

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

If you don't set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

There is no devil in the universe except mankind's own inharmonious thoughts & feelings, both individual and enmass.

I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

Everybody likes to win. It sure beats the devil out of losing.

Anybody who rapes, and plunders, and enslaves, and steals, and drops hell bombs on people... anybody who does these things is nothing but a devil.

I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

God is not a God of sadness, death, etc., but the devil is. Christ is a God of joy, and so the Scriptures often say that we should rejoice ... A Christian should and must be a cheerful person.

When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.

The Devil may also make use of morality.

If [the devil has] brought you down, make sure that with Christ’s enabling you stand back up.

May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'.

There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils.

The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves

What if you went to Hell, and it was exactly what you thought it would be: just a cave with fire? And the devil really was this idiot in a red leotard with a pitchfork?

To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

The gods of one age become the devils of the age to follow. The priests look forward to the age to come and see only the end of the world.

Entertainment is the devils substitute for joy, and when you get satisfaction out of that dumb thing, your joy will diminish.

God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.

Hell was created for the devil and his angels. If you go, you are an intruder.

If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

Acts of the devil revealed and reveled, designed to recline the mind to lower level.

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave.

You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

Where dance is, there is the devil.

I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.

The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.

For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her.

The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

The devil, you see, is that friend who never stays with us to the end.

Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.

If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved Algeria.

At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.

The gods spend the wealth the universe gathers, they scan the wonders and fling them to nothingness. That's why they're the gods! I told you they were devils.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was making us believe that he's not real.