Devil Quotes

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

Time, Jealous, Same

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
Thomas Carlyle

Great, God, Daily

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

Art, Heart, Pretty

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
Charles Darwin

Work, Nature, Book

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
Dwight L. Moody

Faith, Religion, Children

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
Stephen King

Sweet, Voice, Hear

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
Malcolm X

Respect, Nothing, Wrong

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

Love, Black, Hell

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.
Chuck Palahniuk

Age, Best, Everything

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

God, Books, Written

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

Him, Brave, Tell

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
Francis Bacon

Fool, Neighbors, Discovered

Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.
Emo Philips

Life, Family, Time

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

Women, Men, Today

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
Aiden Wilson Tozer

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
Samuel Butler

God, After, Effort

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.
Edwin Louis Cole

God, Best, Enemy

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
Billy Sunday

Hell, Highest, Reward

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

Sin, Falls, Saint

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
George Santayana

Revenge, Passion, Sometimes

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

Living, Point, Surviving

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
Michel de Montaigne

Nature, End, Last

Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.
Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Positive, Mom, Yourself

Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.
Emo Philips

Life, Time, Loved

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
Thomas Fuller

Action, Himself, Devotion

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
Thomas Fuller

Lies, Miser, Brooding

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

Power, Ignorance, Bad

Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.
Horatio Nelson

Hate, Enemy, Opinion

Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.
Tom Waits

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
Gustave Flaubert

Ignorance, True, Stupidity

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