The Devil Quotes

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil.

Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark?

I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.

The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.

It is possible for the devil to inhabit animals the same way he inhabits humans and that causes a sin of lust.

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

I am an idle devil. But at least I work at it.

God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.

I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil's work for free.

There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.

It takes a man to make a devil.

God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.

It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.

Doesn't the devil live forever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any person wearing mourning for the devil?

I baptize you not in the name of the father, but in the name of the devil. (Ego baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli.)

For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who "believe and tremble" has one.

Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.

Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil.

The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him.

The devil comes to bring a fate you couldn't imagine in your wildest dream.

But even so, we're not devils, let alone gods. We're human. We're human!

You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.

The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind." (Marco)

I will never sit down with Gerry Adams . . . he'd sit with anyone. He'd sit down with the devil. In fact, Adams does sit down with the devil.

You the devil in drag. You can burn your cross, Well, I'll burn your flag.

Liberals can always be trusted to see God in Mumia Abu-Jamal and the devil in the Pope.

The most difficult thing for me is to leave the New Jersey Devils, a great organization that I have a lot of respect for, and our fans that have been great to me.

I want to be one of the artists in the cathedral on the great plain. I want to make a dragon's head, an angel, a devil - or perhaps a saint - out of stone.

Charlie Studd has written me a delightful letter... He thinks the Chinese language was invented by the devil to prevent the Chinese from ever hearing the Gospel properly.

It did not last: the devil howling "Ho! Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo.

The devil is everywhere under the skin of things, searching for a way into the light.

It's a sort of curious phenomenon that God is somehow not quite as nice as the devil; the devil doesn't punish you for behaving well, but God punishes you for behaving badly.

May we dedicate our lives to serving the Lord and not worry about offending the devil.

A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point.

At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.

A shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without a man is a pitiable shred. Yet together, light and dark, they make a whole.

You gonna take the case?" It's not a case. It's a missing person. Sort of." You're gonna have a devil of a time finding him if it was aliens," Grandma said.

Well, sure, but I don't bring God into it. I think shower massage might have been invented by the devil. God invented the missionary position.

Good thing he's dead," Lula said, "or that would have hurt like the devil.

If the Devil's in yer pants make cheese with him.

If I could ask Ken Lay one question right now, do you know what it would be? "Does the Devil really wear Prada?"

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

Don't fret, Grannie. We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil out of her

I'll miss you forever.' Blake - Devil To Pay

All good things, all godly things, have been counterfeited by the devil.