Devil Quotes

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.

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.

Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

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.

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

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.

When I met my wife 20 plus years ago, she was a vegetarian, so I was the closest thing to the devil that she had ever met.

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.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

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.