Top 100 The Devil Himself Quotes
#1. I love you. I don't give a damn if your father is the devil himself. I'd let you stab a knife in my heart if it pleased you, and I'd lie there loving you until my last breath.-Rhys Winterborne's to Helen Ravenel
Lisa Kleypas
#2. Behind that rough facade, customers drank beer and danced, activities that to any good Southern Baptist invoked the Devil himself.
Tom Robbins
#3. If it was a sin for you to choose me ... then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it.
Diana Gabaldon
#4. If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.
Werner Herzog
#6. I won't let you go. I'll follow you to the heights of heaven and the depths of hell to fight God and the devil himself to keep you.
J.R. Loveless
#7. The man who publishes a book without an index ought to be damned 10 miles beyond hell, where the Devil himself cannot get for stinging nettles.
John Baynes
#8. Don't you ever dare judge, for who among us can say that when the devil himself offered us a deal, we refused?
Kamand Kojouri
#10. You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.
Horatio Nelson
#11. I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story ...
Samuel Goldwyn
#12. Count Sylvius, "We give you best, Holmes. I believe you are the devil himself."
"Not far from him, at any rate," Holmes answered witha polite smile.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#13. Ignorance is the parent of fear, and being completely nonplussed and confounded about the stranger, I confess I was now as much afraid of him as if it was the devil himself who had thus broken into my room at the dead of night.
Herman Melville
#14. We are oft to blame in this, -
'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage,
and pios action we do sugar o'er
the devil himself.
William Shakespeare
#15. [As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#16. 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
#17. The Devil himself had probably re-designed Hell in the light of the information he had gained from observing airport layouts.
Anthony Price
#18. An old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.
Fanny Burney
#19. I would have worked with the devil himself if he'd been for the six hour day and worker control of the hiring hall.
Harry Bridges
#20. Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.
Seneca The Younger
#21. If Hitler invaded Hell, I'd find something nice to say about the Devil himself.
Winston Churchill
#22. In some ways, she was naive. Innocent even. In other ways, she was the devil himself.
T.M. Frazier
#23. May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
Jean Cocteau
#24. If only there was something to trade, someone to trade with; Cass would rip her soul from her body and hand it to the devil himself, would walk into the gates of hell with her head held high if someone could just take care of Ruthie.
Sophie Littlefield
#25. God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy. Why is it thatthis has not induced any scholar to develop a theory of the diabolical genre?
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#26. The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind.
(Marco)
Iain Pears
#27. The present participle is the Devil himself, she thought, now that we are in the place for believing in Devils.
Virginia Woolf
#28. Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.
Horatio Nelson
#29. When one is dining with the devil himself," I mutter, "a vast amount of preparation is in order.
Aprilynne Pike
#30. I never knew that I would see the day that I would meet the devil himself.
Busta Rhymes
#31. Mary was convinced that because of some sin she had unwittingly committed in her life, she was mated with the devil himself. She really believed this because her husband told her so. "I am the devil himself," he told her frequently.
Betty Smith
#32. 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
#34. Handsome as sin and more dangerous than the devil himself, Braden MacAllister had but one affliction in life. He adored all women.
Kinley MacGregor
#35. I could see the two sides hardening, their feelings intensifying, as both began to think the other not just wrong, but hideous, venal ... in league with the devil himself.
James Redfield
#36. Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
Billy Graham
#37. Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy: sayest thou that house is dark?
William Shakespeare
#38. Someone's got to look after the devil himself, as long as he wears clothes and needs food and drink.
Mary Stewart
#39. I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.
Dodie Smith
#40. No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.
Daniel Defoe
#41. Nuns? They'd take one look at Barrons and decide the devil himself had come knockng. He not only looked dangerous, he emanated something that made even me feel like crossing myself sometimes, and I'm not religious.
Karen Marie Moning
#42. You tried to barter with the devil himself for me, you crazy woman. Bloody hell, doona you ever risk your life for mine. Ever! Do you hear me?
Karen Marie Moning
#43. Giving myself a pep talk, I peeked into my pants and told my vagina that even though what was about to happen to her was construed by the devil himself, I still loved her and hopefully, such actions would bring great rewards in the future.
Meghan Quinn
#44. Olivia dared not ask, but she had to know. It seemed unlikely her husband could have made a worse choice than Jack Dodger, but if he was her husband's first who would serve as his second? The devil himself? Who is appointed as my son's guardian in that will?
Lorraine Heath
#45. He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
Herman Melville
#46. Part of him screamed to walk away, and another part of him couldn't walk away if the devil himself threatened to kick his ass.
Lisa Kessler
#47. If you open the flood gates of thought you do not know what may come. You may discover that you are better than you thought or worse than the devil himself
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#48. I don't count that relationship with Ricky. It's just like a blip at this point. I had to fall in love with the devil himself to get this sweet angel, Jack.
Christie Brinkley
#49. When Death lurks at the door, the physician is considered as a God. When danger has been overcome, the physician is looked upon as an angel. When the patient begins to convalesce, the physician becomes a mere human. When the physician asks for his fees, he is considered as the devil himself.
Hendrik Goltzius
#50. It wasn't long before I had the urge to glance inside. I then had a slight moment of panic. Number one, Big John was walking out the door with a meat cleaver gleaming in his hand. Yes, a meat cleaver.
Number two, he was glaring at Caleb like he was the devil himself.
Shelly Crane
#51. The flesh is a worse enemy than the devil himself.
Isaac Ambrose
#52. I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
Teresa Of Avila
#53. As Kit's father used to say about various criminals, Julian was the kind of person who could descend into Hell and come out with the devil himself owing him a favor.
Cassandra Clare
#54. You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" "That's what you are! You are the devil himself!
Anne Rice
#55. The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#56. Once the two of you come together, even the devil himself will be running for cover.
- The Duke of Traherne
Diana Quincy
#57. After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers.
Martin Luther
#58. In other words, such is he desire which everyone has to exculpate himself by blackening his neighbour. You and I, Belford, have been very kind to the world in furnishing it with many opportunities to gratify its devil.
Samuel Richardson
#59. Never will he understand the sufferings of another, who has not experienced them himself, though he have divine Reason and the nature of a genuine devil!
G.I. Gurdjieff
#60. When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
Henry Ward Beecher
#61. Whosoever obeyeth the devil, casteth himself down: for the devil may suggest, compel he cannot.
Francis Quarles
#62. Because when Eddie's in that fuckin zone, he could talk the devil into setting himself on fire.
Stephen King
#63. Did not i say that things would come right of themselves? said the Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, To him who contents himself with the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop. Monseigneur, murmured the cure, throwing back his head with a smile. God or the Devil.
Victor Hugo
#64. War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.
Patrick Ness
#65. You are blinded and you serve the God of the Jews, who is not the God of love but the God of hatred. Why don't you listen to Christ Himself, who said to the Jews: Ye are of your father the devil!
Julius Streicher
#66. The cunning devil has told her every unsavoury public scandal of his past life, but always in such a way as to make himself out to be an innocent martyr. She absolutely accepts his version and will listen to no other.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#67. Anyone who exposes himself to the Devil, even in a movie, is exposing himself to real danger. ...
David Frost
#68. Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.
George Bernard Shaw
#69. Thane Ealdian prowls the earth once more. Shutter your houses. Bar your doors. Offer him gold and women to satisfy his cravings. A black dragon is like the very devil himself.
Erin Kellison
#70. What have I done to her?" Gabriel muttered to himself as he crossed the room to crank open a window. Cool air washed over his skin. "What the devil did she do to me?
Olivia Parker
#71. The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.
Vincent De Paul
#73. It would be easier for the Devil to go to church and cross himself with holy water than for these people to comprehend the ideas which are accepted facts to us today.
Adolf Hitler
#74. The devil considers all misplaced trust as devil worship, for he hides himself in its shadows.
Bill Johnson
#75. A simple person must be encouraged to see the Christian life as a war, not only with the world, the devil, and the flesh, but with God Himself.
Dan B. Allender
#76. A soul-winner can do nothing without God. He must cast himself
on the Invisible, or be a laughing-stock to the devil, who regards
with utter disdain all who think to subdue human nature with mere words and arguments.
Charles Spurgeon
#77. The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#78. The time is always now to declare your freedom!"
..."The Authority says that Anarchy is the devil. But I say that a man who's both an anarchist and a patriot has been ordained by God himself!
Logan Keys
#79. This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.
Origen
#80. An angel wants to know the face of the devil," he mused more to himself than to me. "If I allow this, will it satisfy you?
Yolanda Olson
#81. The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it.
William Shakespeare
#82. While we should never walk around feeling guilty for people's affliction (after all, it's the devil that is oppressing them, not us!) we must nonetheless accept the responsibility to grow up into the image of Christ, so that Jesus is able to express Himself through us in fullness.
Andy Hayner
#83. The devil should not be allowed to keep all the best tunes for himself.
Martin Luther
#84. You will encounter disappointments in your ministry, in yourself, and even in God Himself but remember that all these are intrigues of the devil
Sunday Adelaja
#85. Lawyers make nothing but confusion ... A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.
Thomas Bernhard
#86. Satan exalted himself above God and endeavored to get man to doubt the reliability of God's Word.
Billy Graham
#87. The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
Vance Havner
#88. I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do - I can die.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#89. Since, as is well know, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, and only those, who don't help themselves. Does the Devil help himself?
Douglas Hofstadter
#90. You are the man who made himself a devil, who wishes to be a god, all for love.
Tim W. Burke
#91. [The Devil] Mephistopheles, when he comes to Faust, testifies of himself that he desires evil, yet does only good. Well, let him do as he likes, it's quite the opposite with me. I am perhaps the only man in all of nature who loves the truth and sincerely desires good.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#92. A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the Devil, who ever consorts with our solitude.
Thomas Browne
#93. In short, Nance, even was you going to the very devil himself, your mother and I would rather see you fly from us in joy, than stay with us in sorrow - and grow, maybe, to hate us, for keeping you from your fate.
Sarah Waters
#94. Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself a devil and the thing elevated is a work of evil magic.
Sheri S. Tepper
#95. The devil has a thousand names," said Crews, voice rising, "but the name he takes the most pride in is Prince of Lies, because he is such a convincing fraud. Even God himself was fooled by Satan once, so what hope do we have to tell what's truth and what's false?
Robert Ferrigno
#97. Something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil ...
Ana Castillo
#98. The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I drown him and every day he gnaws. Help me drown the worm, fellas.
Nelson Algren
#99. Natural men may have lively impressions on their imaginations; and we can't determine but that the devil, who transforms himself into an angel of light, may cause imaginations of an outward beauty, or visible glory, and of sounds and speeches and other such things;
Jonathan Edwards
#100. The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.
Saint Augustine
