Devil Quotes

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

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

There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

Why doesn't that Devil take me with him? It would be much better with him than it is here.

The devil himself had probably redesigned Hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

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.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

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.

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit.

I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

And, Mr. Speaker, if the Governor and Council don't see fit to fall in with us, I say let the general duty law, and all, go to the devil, sir, and go about our business.

I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.

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.

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future.

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!