Devil Within Me Quotes

#1. I am an inveterate buffoon, and been from birth up, your reverence, it's as though it were a craze in me. I dare say it's a devil within me. But only a little one. A more serious one would have chosen another lodging.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.

Kedar Joshi

#3. Once, my enemies were those I could see
Now the devil lies deep within me
But angels still nudge me, whispering follies of sin
This war is mine, and mine alone, to win.

Sarah Brownlee

#4. Christ by his death destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed sin, as to its reign in believers, that it shall not obtain its end and dominion.

John Owen

#5. Idleness and luxury are the devil's jackals, and find him abundant prey.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#6. I know she is of the Devil, for I cannot have my mind from her." From trial transcript of accuser of Mary Bliss Parsons.

Kathy-Ann Becker

#7. While reading Emotionally Wounded Spiritually Strong washing clothes taday I got up to page 52-54 and I had to stop for a sech it brought tears to my eyes to think how the devil had a plan on my family from the beginning. How PPL thought we were the perfect family. Thank God for Jesus.

Tarran Carter

#8. The way I was brought up 'he needed killing' is an airtight alibi.

Lisa Kleypas

#9. Indolence is the devil's cushion.

Samuel Johnson

#10. I didn't understand how someone could be God and the devil. How the same person could destroy you and save you."

- Sam Roth

Maggie Stiefvater

#11. When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.

Dan Totheroh

#12. I remember confuting one of Westminster's favourite maxims, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't". In the annals of popular wisdom, this is one of the most cretinous sayings I have come across.

Coco Chanel

#13. I love Allah: I have no time left in which to hate the devil.

Rabia Basri

#14. Oh, William, what pitiable creatures we men are! When we go to church we make the devil angry, when we enjoy ourselves in the inns, we make God angry; we are the unlucky lot stuck between two fires!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. We are all the same instincts
Good and Evil struggled between us. It was all a matter of control. And choice. Nothing more and nothing less.

Paulo Coelho

#16. You got to tell me the brave captain
Why are the wicked so strong?
How do the angels get to sleep
When the devil leaves the porch light on?

Tom Waits

#17. Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.

Victoria Moran