A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
John Kenneth Galbraith

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
Walter Martin

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
James A. Garfield

A church debt is the devil's salary.
Henry Ward Beecher

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.
Pope Paul VI

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
William Hazlitt

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
John Webster

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
Billy Sunday

Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
H. L. Mencken

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel Butler

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?"
Rudyard Kipling

And, Mr. Speaker, if the Governor and Council don't see fit to fall in with us, I say let the general duty law, and all, go to the devil, sir, and go about our business.
Christopher Gadsden

Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.
Richard Savage

Anything new is always considered the devil's tool.
Rip Torn

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

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
St. Jerome

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

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.
Robert Mapplethorpe

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand