Top 100 Quotes About Devils
#1. In the deepest pits of 'Ell, Where the worst defaulters dwell (Charcoal devils used as fuel as you require 'em), There's some lovely coloured rays, Pyrotechnical displays, But you can't expect the burning to admire 'em!
Edgar Wallace
#2. Fighting is going on inside the elevator', one of their soldiers wrote. 'It is occupied not by men but by devils, whom no flames or bullets can destroy. If all the buildings of Stalingrad are defended like this, then none of our soldiers will get back to Germany.
Michael K. Jones
#3. Only I was capable of saving her now, and that, as far as anyone could argue, may have made me worse than all the devils and the demons, but it also, more accurately, made me better than all the angels and gods.
Alistair Cross
#4. In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.
John Donne
#5. There is a dreadful Hell, And everlasting pains; There sinners must with devils dwell In darkness, fire, and chains.
Isaac Watts
#6. We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an individual we adamantly resist changing our opinion, even when somebody offers proof of his decency, because it's vital to have myths about both the gods and devils in our lives.
Marlon Brando
#7. Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#8. God, in his wisdom, sent us his angels, to whisper our names on the wind. God, in his anger, released his devils, to pester our souls to the end.
Sam Cheever
#9. We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be.
Slobodan Milosevic
#10. Perhaps living in fear can drive all devils out of a person.
Lauren Groff
#11. Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils.
Martin Luther
#12. We are all the gods and devils, hiding under the human skin.
Akshay Vasu
#13. Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils.
Mary McCarthy
#14. At Poltersberg, there is a lake similarly cursed. If you throw a stone into it, a dreadful storm immediately arises, and the whole neighboring district quakes to its centre. 'Tis the devils kept prisoner there.
Martin Luther
#15. Every step closer to my soul excites the scornful laughter of my devils, those cowardly ear-whisperers and poison-mixers.
C. G. Jung
#16. Don't think for one minute that you are any less worthy of love and peace and harmony just because of all the hate spewed by human devils. Because that is what those haters are, you know, devils!
Scylar Tyberius
#17. Respect the gods and the devils but keep them at a distance
Confucius
#18. It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.
John Steinbeck
#19. With slouch and swing around the ring
We trod the Fools' Parade!
We did not care: we knew we were
The Devils' Own Brigade:
And shaven head and feet of lead
Make a merry masquerade.
Oscar Wilde
#20. Sometimes I think there are devils at work in the kitchen - recipes that are always perfect sometimes come out less than perfect and I can't figure out why.
Dorie Greenspan
#21. Pala is probably the only country in which an animal theologian would have no reason for believing in devils. For animals everywhere else, Satan, quite obviously, is Homo sapiens." They
Aldous Huxley
#22. Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don't validate. Indulge what you don't like. Wallow in it. Write the opposite of what you always write, think, speak. Do everything against the grain!
Deena Metzger
#23. In this world, with thy earthly life, thou art under heaven, stars, and elements, also under hell and devils; all ruleth in thee, and over thee.
Jakob Bohme
#24. The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. I would not take a young man to a lock-hospital to knock the hankering after women out of him, but into my soul to see the devils that were rending it.
Leo Tolstoy
#26. I met a woman
She had a mouth like yours
She knew your life
She knew your devils and your deeds
And she said
Go to him, stay with him if you can
But be prepared to bleed
Joni Mitchell
#27. If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
Tom Waits
#28. The more devils we have within us, the more chance we have to form angels.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#29. I admit that I ain't no angel, I admit that I ain't no saint
I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they're so hard to find ...
Tom Waits
#31. Human emotions are our devils," Cheveyo said. "They tease us with things we can't have, torture us with feelings we can't act on. They cause physical pain.
Jaime Rush
#32. All that is mere
rationalism; the superstition (that is the unreasoning repugnance
and terror) is in the person who admits there can be angels but
denies there can be devils. The superstition is in the person who
admits there can be devils but denies there can be diabolists.
G.K. Chesterton
#33. A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
Soren Kierkegaard
#34. Inspiring words are potent, and sometimes dangerous, things. They can inspire idiots and devils as well as great man.
Richard Brookhiser
#35. Her ancestors would fight for her spirit, but so too would the white devils who had come to rule. They had taken first our land and then our souls.
Selina Siak Chin Yoke
#36. Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man.
Thomas Paine
#37. We are all in the same game, just different levels, dealing with the same hell, just different devils.
Anonymous
#38. Your only gain is to try to get me to fall down to your level. Man, you worser than devils.
Snoop Dogg
#39. I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a feral piglet, and adult croc thrashing its prey to pieces. But never, in all the animal world, have I witnessed anything to match the casual cruelty of the human being.
Terri Irwin
#40. I feel like if you're in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan.
Kevin Smith
#41. My friends, it is wise to nourish the soul, otherwise you will breed dragons and devils in your heart.
C. G. Jung
#42. Abortion is an atrocity. Those who practice or praise it are either damn idiots, misguided fools, or treacherous devils.
Christopher Titus
#43. I know what good morals are,
but you're supposed to disregard good morals when you're living in a crazy, bad world. If you're in hell, how can you live like an angel? You're surrounded by devils,trying to be an angel? That's like suicide.
Tupac Shakur
#44. I am not forsaken! I'm no longer alone in the darkness! Before my eyes I see a thousand little devils lighting black candles along the path which leads toward the edge ... the blindingly beautiful edge.
Susan Kay
#46. Watch for the devil. When there's a god, there's always a legion of devils.
Maggie Stiefvater
#47. We're a long, long way from home, Bobbie; Home's a long, long way from us. I feel a dirty wind blowing; Devils and dust.
Bruce Springsteen
#48. Yes," said Hardacre, "but it's not real. We're not real. And when the story is all told, when He writes 'The End' at the bottom of the last page, then all this will wrap up. No more Hell, no more Heaven, no more angels, devils, saints or sinners. The story's done. It will be as if we never were
Matthew Hughes
#49. Nikki, never underestimate the ability of the devils among us to see only the saints in themselves. How else could they go about their day?
Richard Castle
#50. The gods spend the wealth the universe gathers, they scan the wonders and fling them to nothingness. That's why they're the gods! I told you they were devils.
Fritz Leiber
#51. The angels and the devils are definitely within us, not within the machines we use.
Michael Dertouzos
#52. God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred.
Mary Shelley
#53. The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door.
Dag Hammarskjold
#54. I don't believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.
Billy Sunday
#55. There was little room in this new world for devils.
Gavin G. Smith
#57. For we have thought the longer thoughts
And gone the shorter way.
And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray;
To serve one master in the night,
Another in the day.
Ernest Hemingway,
#59. The gods of one age become the devils of the age to follow. The priests look forward to the age to come and see only the end of the world.
Lon Milo DuQuette
#60. And Peter laughed, and when he did, all the Devils grinned, because Peter's laugh was a most contagious thing.
Brom
#61. On his contract negotiations with the Devils: It's beyond money at this point. They're not even treating him as a member of their family, unless it's a dysfunctional family.
Kurt Overhardt
#62. The emotions of men, however, were of a different order. They were pesky annoyances, small dust devils at her feet. Her knack for causing heartbreak was innate, but her vitality often made people forgive her romantic misdeeds.
Steve Martin
#64. The body's a mirror of heaven: Its energies make angels jealous. Our purity astounds seraphim. Devils shiver at our nerve.
Rumi
#65. God, give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst!
George Whitefield
#66. You can know a man by his devils and the way he gives hurts.
Saul Bellow
#67. Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.
Thomas Paine
#68. For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who "believe and tremble" has one.
Herman Melville
#69. You have to make doubt and devils obey you. Don't ever treat the devil nice. Treat him mean and tell him what to do.
Roberts Liardon
#70. The devils of past religions have always, at least in part, had animal characteristics, evidence of man's constant need to deny that he too is an animal, for to do so would serve a mighty blow to his impoverished ego.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#71. Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.
Nelson DeMille
#72. I'm one of the
freaks, the faggots,
the geeks, the savages,
rogues, rebels, dissident devils,
artists, martyrs, infidels ...
do we sit still
under attack?
or do we start pushing back?
never back up
never back down
& FIGHT.
Otep Shamaya
#73. A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
Margaret Cavendish
#75. Even angels need angels," she whispered. "And sometimes devils too.
Michael Robb
#76. A smart hotel is a place where 100 people toil like devils in order that 200 may pay through the nose for things they do not really want.
George Orwell
#78. Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
Arthur Wellesley
#79. One of the reasons I love devils so much is not based in my faith, but because as a kid, I grew up loving heavy metal and horror movies, and the devil is such a huge presence in both.
Victor LaValle
#80. They are not demons, not devils...
Worse than that.
They are people.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#81. Writers cleave together like a demonic AA group - we are singularly able to dance with each other's devils...
J.D. Young
#82. Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making of water into wine, wine to blood, - when they want to impress us with their "science"?
Karlheinz Deschner
#83. I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#85. Of course your fine." She keeps walking. "You're the devils bride and these are his creatures.
Susan Ee
#86. The blacks or coloured people are treated more cruel by the white Christans of America than devils themselves ever treated a set of men, women, and children on this earth.
- David Walker 1829
David L. Walker
#87. In fighting those who serve devils one always his this on one's side; their Masters hate them as much as they hate us. The moment we disable the human pawns enough to make them useless to Hell, their own Masters finish the work for us. they break their tools.
C.S. Lewis
#88. Even devils should beware when bargaining with Thanos of Titan.
Jim Starlin
#89. The holy angels live and qualify in the light, in the good quality wherein the Holy Ghost reigneth. The devils live and reign in the fierce wrathful quality, in the quality of fierceness and wrath, destruction or perdition.
Jakob Bohme
#90. My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils.
Dante Hall
#91. Nothing can touch the Word of God. Not all the powers of earth and hell, men and devils combined, can ever move the Word of God. There it stands, in its own moral glory, spite of all the assaults of the enemy, from age to age. 'For ever, 0 Lord, Thy Word is settled in heaven.'
Charles Henry Mackintosh
#92. God is everywhere present by His power. He rolls the orbs of heaven with His hand; He fixes the earth with His foot; He guides all creatures with His eye, and refreshes them with His influence; He makes the powers of hell to shake with His terrors, and binds the devils with His word.
Jeremy Taylor
#93. You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils
censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic
the women in Scotland have twice
thrice their freedom, with all their virtue
and are very conversable and agreeable
their educations are more finished.
Fanny Burney
#94. Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas
Carl Jung
#95. Have you been reading those books that clueless illiterate Duja in charge of the lending library lets you borrow?' 'No, Ma.' 'Then what put you in mind of devils possessing nuns to take over the church?
Renita D'Silva
#96. The effects of preaching are a miracle." A good preacher converts persons; he casts out devils from the hearts of those whom he changes from sin to holiness. This he could not do without power from God. But what seems good, is often not good.
J.C. Ryle
#97. These devils find a way to get at'cha. All it takes is some green and your face on the screen.
Lil' Kim
#98. I don't raise my head. I can't. If he looks me in the eyes he'll be able to tell I'm breaking down. My soul is shattering into a million pieces and my heart no longer feels any love for this world I'm breathing in. How can it? This is a devils act. I'm living in hell.- Winter
Crystal Spears
#99. Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#100. Mother's particular devils had remained mysterious to me for decades. So had her past. Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth's direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free.
Mary Karr
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