The Devil Quotes

It's as though some poor devil were to set out for a large dinner party with the knowledge that the following morning he would be hearing exactly what each of the other guests thought of him.

The devil is not abroad at night in the form of a cat or a wolf or any other animal. He lives eternally in the hearts of men.

You Nazis! I pity the devil when you boys start arriving in bunches.

It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.

They say that God is in the details. Then again, they also say that the Devil is in the details. Boy, talk about awkward.

[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .

It wouldn't make for sanity would it, living with the devil.

Two half hitches around the horn will hold the devil as sure as you're born.

I only eat organic. I love salads and believe food is our best medicine. My son is so brainwashed, he thinks McDonald's is the devil.

God gave humans the truth, and the devil came and he said, 'Let's give it a name and call it religion.'

'Tis an easier matter to raise the devil than to lay him.

And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory must be the Devil.

If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it.

Speaking of the devil, well here he comes now. Got my defenses down. And I'd go through hell to make him mine.

This year, notoriety got confused with fame, and the devil is down hearted because there is nothing left for him to claim.

I really have no idea what the French think of my characters, or why The Devil All the Time did so well there.

Without Satan, no Christ.

I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.

That's one of those hazards of an interview: You get tired of your stock answer and you try to get creative and even play devil's advocate.

This world is half the devil's and my own, Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl and curling round the bud that forks her eye.

The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has.

I think the most interesting stuff comes from people who've just got nothing to lose. You know, let's kamikaze this thing - just throw themselves in it, devil may care.

Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.

God is good, there is no devil but fear.

You are never tempted by a devil without you, but by a devil within you.

The devil makes a great deal of the religion we see.

The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.

the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.

Now I just don't know who to tell to go to hell Who put the old devil in the distorted angel?

I make music to make you sick of fake music, hate music like devil worshippin Satan music. So say your prayers, your Hail Marys and Jesuses. Take two sticks, tape 'em together and make a crucifix.

For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.

The devil! what beastly things our memories insist on cherishing!

One may not give one's soul to a devil of hate - and remain forever scatheless.

The Lord is letting the wheat and the tares mature before he fully purges the Church. He is also testing you to see if you will be misled. The devil is trying to deceive the very elect.

I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.

an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.

Hail, mute devil! You are the most intense animal. An eternal mystic of the fleshly inferno.

It's hard to dance with a devil on your back, So shake him off...

Whosoever obeyeth the devil, casteth himself down: for the devil may suggest, compel he cannot.

The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'

And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.

The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom

You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman--a devil!

Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine.

You work for the devil, you better be ready to die for him.

The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.

What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new?

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.

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