Top 100 Quotes About Devil
#1. Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you.
Angela Carter
#2. Dancing is forbidden to Christians. Isn't it suggestive that the word ballet comes from the Greek ballo, which is also the origin of diabolos, "devil"?8
Peter J. Leithart
#4. An angel fighting through the darkness or a devil breaking into the light?
K. Bromberg
#5. God has a plan and the devil has a plan, and you will have to decide which plan you are going to fit into.
Billy Graham
#6. Over-confidence is the way to give your soul to the devil an inch at a time.
Joe R. Lansdale
#7. There are times when you simply have to righteous hang on and outlast the devil.
Ezra Taft Benson
#8. If you want to give the devil a message, write it on the bottom of your shoes.
Andrew Wommack
#9. 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
#10. Amy said, "So, you're making a flamethrower?"
"Amy, we gotta be prepared. We don't know what we'll find in that place, but for all we know it could be the Devil himself."
"David, what possible good is that thing gonna do?"
"Oh, no, you didn't hear me. I said it's a flamethrower." Girls.
David Wong
#11. The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects.
Henry David Thoreau
#12. 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
#13. Modern women are squeezed between the devil and the deep blue sea, and there are no lifeboats out there in the form of public policies designed to help these women combine their roles as mothers and as workers.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
#14. God is building a mighty army to vanquish the forces of darkness. These soldiers of the light are initially conceived and nurtured in the wombs of women. As such, an obvious strategy for the devil would be to sabotage the womb to cut down the size of this godly army.
Theresa Pecku-Laryea
#15. The flesh on the nape of my neck did the crawly thing that it does so well. Some people say this is God's warning that the devil is near, but I've noticed I also experience it when someone serves me Brussels sprouts.
Dean Koontz
#16. The battle against the devil, which is the principal task of Saint Michael the Archangel, is still being fought today, because the devil is still alive and active in the world.
Pope John Paul II
#18. You can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers ... Economic ignorance is to politicians what idle hands are to the devil. Both provide the workshop for the creation of evil.
Walter E. Williams
#19. The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.
Sri Aurobindo
#20. The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood.
Martin Luther
#21. Math has proven the existence of God, because it is absolute and without contradiction; but the devil must exist as well, because we cannot prove it
Yoko Ogawa
#22. Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God ... It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
#23. Satan can move in the supernatural realm, too, because he is a spirit being, as is God. You've got to be able to know whether a vision, dream, impression, or suggestion is from God or Satan. Those suggestions that do not line up with the Word are of the devil.
Kenneth E. Hagin
#24. The classic statement on polarization comes from Christ: 'He that is not with me is against me.' (Luke 11:23) He allowed no middle ground to the moneychangers in the Temple. One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.
Saul Alinsky
#25. We are not the Church in failure, running out the back door while the devil kicks in the front door. We are the Church of Luke 10:19 that has authority over all the power of the enemy.
Harold R. Eberle
#26. Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print
Matthew Pearl
#27. Orsini and one of his fellow conspirators were guillotined, and an accomplice called Carlo di Rudio was transported to Devil's Island, the notorious French prison camp in French Guiana. He escaped and later fought alongside General Custer at Little Big Horn. True to form, he survived.
Stephen Clarke
#28. Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.
Ambrose Bierce
#29. 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
#31. The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, why would you be recompensed with hell?
Umberto Eco
#32. If one were to entrust the organisation of public life to the devil, he could not invent a more clever device.
Simone Weil
#33. There is simply something wrong with my conscience. I do try to wrestle with the devil as I ought, but, like Eve, even when tempted by the Forbidden Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, I succumb. Good as they are, how could my parents have bred a daughter like me?
Miriam Brenaman
#34. A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.
William Hazlitt
#35. 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
#36. I still got a few more dances with the devil.
Tim McGraw
#38. most people interpret silence as rejection!
Ali Vali
#40. The book is worth reading, in part because it is enjoyable to read of
other people's folly, not to mention their avarice and stupidity."
Roger Lowenstein, reviewing "Devil Take the Hindmost: a History
of Financial Speculation", WSJ 6-1-99
Roger Lowenstein
#41. The town cares for devil's work no more than it cares for God's or man's. It knew darkness. And darkness was enough.
Stephen King
#42. When the whole point was that the Devil hardly ever made anyone do anything. He didn't have to.
Terry Pratchett
#43. But one place ain't no different from no place else. People try and make it like everything's new only to find the devil done followed you wherever you moved and all you can do is hold him off whiles you catch your breath
Amina Gautier
#44. [My] rheumatism has come in again"
Ivan, cynically, "The devil have rheumatism!"
"Why not, if I sometimes put on fleshly form? I put on fleshly form and I take the consequences. Satan sum et nihil humanum a me alienum puto."*
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#45. We should realize that there are three sources for our thoughts - God, the devil, and ourselves.
John Cassian
#46. Around us there is the presence of evil. The devil is at work. But in a loud voice I say: GOD IS STRONGER.
Pope Francis
#48. In the distorting mirror of your mind, an angel can seem to have a devil's face.
Idries Shah
#49. Sociopath was really just a politically correct way to say "the devil".
Jack Pendarvis
#50. Okay, how's this? I've been to Heaven and Hell. I've seen the whole world, but the only thing that makes me want to live is this: being inside you. I love you so much. You're all I see.
Debra Anastasia
#51. You're the devil, you know that, right?"
His smile grew and became just a bit wicked. "You know it, sweetheart.
Samantha Chase
#52. [Those who accept] the Americanized, Constantinian paradigm [say:] We are of God; they are of the Devil. We are the light; they are the darkness. Our wars are therefore "holy" wars. With all due respect, this is blatant idolatry.
Gregory A. Boyd
#53. I was clearly fascinated by him, but had the strange sense that he was equally fascinated by me. As far as he was concerned I was the devil itself, but the devil always holds a variety of attractions.
Jacob Wren
#54. I love Allah: I have no time left in which to hate the devil.
Rabia Basri
#55. When we are born we are magical and loving and full of wonder. But darkness and ignorance surround us at every corner. Until the day someone calls us a monster or a devil and we believe them.
Philip Ridley
#56. You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman
a devil!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#57. What happens when it's 2 a.m. and you're alone in a hotel room with the devil's minibar? Minibar - one; Marissa - zero.
Marissa Jaret Winokur
#58. Watching Clay Guida fight is like watching a Tasmanian devil.
Greg Jackson
#59. MATTHEW 4 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
Anonymous
#60. Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.
James Buchan
#61. Some people seem to put the devil on a par with God. Actually, Satan is a fallen angel.
Billy Graham
#62. The Devil loved watching children pour down the front steps of the high school like lava from a volcano. Trolling for souls. He posed in one of his favorite guises today, a school bus driver.
Serena Schreiber
#63. Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.
Dan Mangan
#64. Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.
Cotton Mather
#65. The devils never had a Savior offered to them, but you have; and do you yet make light of Him?
Richard Baxter
#66. Shared libraries are the work of the devil, the one true sign that the apocalypse is at hand.
Tom Duff
#67. In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil.
Jesse Ventura
#68. 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
#69. If the Devil says you cannot pray when you are angry, tell him it is none of his business, and pray until that species of insanity is dispelled and serenity is restored to the mind. (p. 175)
Brigham Young
#70. 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
#71. Remember that the devil is the one who tells you to play a tune that's not your own, and you can drive him right on out into the cold by playing what's in your soul.
Jennifer Mason-Black
#72. Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.
Miguel De Cervantes
#73. Samuel Chadwick said, "The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless works and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray!" Prayer
Neal Pirolo
#74. It is interesting how fashion filters down and we discover in the "Devil Wears Prada" that we're all prey to trends, even if we think we are not.
Meryl Streep
#75. 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
#77. Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.
Arthur Miller
#78. Mary Fisher lives in a High Tower, on the edge of the sea: she writes a great deal about the nature of love. She tells lies.
Faye Weldon
#79. Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#80. I do not think you are in any danger of starving," Maximus said. "The surgeon said only two weeks ago that you are too fat."
"The devil!" Berkley said indignantly, sitting up; and Maximus snorted in amusement at having provoked him.
Naomi Novik
#81. That woman is hiding something!" she said.
"You think everyone's hiding something."
"And you would hug the devil if he gave you cookies.
Michael Buckley
#84. I liked, as I like still, to make words look self-conscious and foolish, to bind them by mock marriage of a pun, to turn them inside out, to come upon them unawares. What is this jest in majesty? This ass in passion? How do god and devil combine to form a live dog?
Vladimir Nabokov
#86. To forsake wisdom is to seek folly,
to seek folly is to seek evil,
to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil,
and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#87. Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love.
It did not end well.
Laini Taylor
#88. The word lust [can] mean "selfish desire." ... It is wanting something so badly you will do anything to get it. That is one of the tricks of the devil. It is too high a price to pay.
Billy Graham
#89. Boy, you knock on the devil's door and he will head slam you through the wall.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#90. Mrs. Weslin was one of those women who had clearly had some work done. That or she had sold her soul to the devil and although that was probably a possibility, I was pretty sure none of the Weslins had souls to sell.
Joann I. Martin Sowles
#91. Devil? JOH6.71 He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the
Anonymous
#92. that's the story of how Saint Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland forever and banished the Devil to England. Some people say that explains why there has always been such trouble between England and Ireland. The Devil stirs it up.
Frank Delaney
#93. We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#94. A man in cahoots with a woman's sexual instinct was the devil himself, for he had the united power over her - himself and her own longing - greater than a mere man
Judith Ivory
#95. And I flirted with the devil and he dealt me a card. He told me that you will never win. So I sold my soul to the devil. I never thought it could be this bad. And I got the devil takin' me away
Hank Williams III
#96. The way I was brought up 'he needed killing' is an airtight alibi.
Lisa Kleypas
#98. The manager swiftly overtook him, sliding effortlessly past the skinny Englishman, with the practiced ease of someone used to slinking around ailing, despotic monarchs.
Tom Vater
#99. The beat of her heart, the slow burning away ... of the bitter fires of the devil's arcade.
Bruce Springsteen
#100. If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
Winston S. Churchill
