One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.
John Gardner

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.
Freddie Mercury

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

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
Anne Rice

Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.
Benny Hinn

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

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

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
Hosea Ballou

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

Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.
Marc Maron

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

So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God.
Warren Jeffs

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.
Laurence Sterne

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Tell the truth and shame the devil.
Francois Rabelais

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
Billy Sunday

That's why I called my record Devil Without a Cause - I'm a white boy who's so sick of hearing that white kids are going to steal rap.
Kid Rock

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