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.

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.

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.

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.

Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.

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.

When you live with the Devil you learn there's a God very quickly.

When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart.

What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?

Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.

Idle time is the devil's play.

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

Haste is of the Devil.