
“Ruffian or devil, black as hell or bright as angels, thenceforth he was nothing to me.”
Wieland; or, the Transformation (1798)
Note to The Voice of the Devil
1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793)
“Ruffian or devil, black as hell or bright as angels, thenceforth he was nothing to me.”
Wieland; or, the Transformation (1798)
“Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just God when he's drunk.”
"Heartattack and Vine", Heartattack and Vine (1980).
“Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone.”
Variant: Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he’s there alone.
Source: Devil May Cry
“We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.”
“No. He married an angel, and I married a devil.”
Source: The Last Romantic, television documentary on Vladimir Horowitz
“Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.”
Noir comme le diable, chaud comme l'enfer, pur comme un ange, doux comme l'amour.
frequently misattributed to Talleyrand, no primary source exists, its not his style of speech, and he famously drank tea not coffee.
Misattributed
“Poor devils, they'll wake up in hell without knowing how they got there.”
"Black Vulmea's Vengeance" (1938)
“Now I just don't know who to tell to go to hell
Who put the old devil in the distorted angel?”
Distorted Angel
Song lyrics, All This Useless Beauty (1996)