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

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.
Ronald Knox

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

It was necessary that the Devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God.
Warren Jeffs

It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
Gabriele Nanni

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
St. Jerome

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.
Sean Connery

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
Branch Rickey

Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
Charles Francis Richter

Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.
Taylor Hackford

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.
Henry Fielding

Marketing is the devil.
Billy Bob Thornton

Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.
Anne Rice

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
Dan Millman

Neutral men are the devil's allies.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.
Learned Hand

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
Lydia M. Child

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

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.
E. T. A. Hoffmann