Devil Quotes

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Albert Einstein

Life, Health, Enjoy

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. Lewis

Education, Rather, Values

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Helen Keller

Time, Good, Men

If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.
Bob Marley

Saying, Down, Everyday

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
Winston Churchill

Hell, House, Favourable

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William Shakespeare

Purpose, Scripture, Cite

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
C. S. Lewis

Long, Adversity, Weather

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
William Shakespeare

Wine, Spirit, Call

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
William Shakespeare

Enemy, Mankind, Consider

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
Marilyn Monroe

Love, Good, Girl

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
Martin Luther

God, Church, Build

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

Beauty, God, Heart

Gossip is the Devil's radio.
George Harrison

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
Martin Luther

Wise, Young, Old

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.
Camille Claudel

Character, Greatest, Everyone

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
Voltaire

Sacrifice, Sacrificed, Graces

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

Time, Jealous, Same

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
H. L. Mencken

God, Failure, Children

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
Thomas Paine

Good, God, Name

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

Happy, Pay, Alimony

There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.
Billy Graham

Good, Great, God

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

Debt, Church, Salary

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
W. C. Fields

Great, Husband, Show

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
William James

Long, Keep, Foot

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
William Ralph Inge

Religion, Human, Doubt

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
Victor Hugo

Blessed, Woman, Child

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Thomas Carlyle

Good, Long, Reason

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.
Jim Carrey

Crazy, Mother, Saying

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

Person, Keep, Making

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