Quotes about devil

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Source: Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals,

Source: Midnight Alley

Source: Inkheart

To his personal secretary John Colville the evening before Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union. As quoted by Andrew Nagorski in The Greatest Battle (2007), Simon & Schuster, pp. 150–151 ISBN 0743281101
The Second World War (1939–1945)
Variant: If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

Source: Les Fleurs du Mal

Source: The Story of My Life, Part III, Ch. 5: Literary Style

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Source: It Happened One Autumn

Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

Source: The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus (c.1565), Ch. XXV. "Divine Locutions. Discussions on That Subject" ¶ 26 & 27
Variant translation: I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
Source: The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself
Context: May it please His Majesty that we fear Him whom we ought to fear, and understand that one venial sin can do us more harm than all hell together; for that is the truth. The evil spirits keep us in terror, because we expose ourselves to the assaults of terror by our attachments to honours, possessions, and pleasures. For then the evil spirits, uniting themselves with us, — we become our own enemies when we love and seek what we ought to hate, — do us great harm. We ourselves put weapons into their hands, that they may assail us; those very weapons with which we should defend ourselves. It is a great pity. But if, for the love of God, we hated all this, and embraced the cross, and set about His service in earnest, Satan would fly away before such realities, as from the plague. He is the friend of lies, and a lie himself. He will have nothing to do with those who walk in the truth. When he sees the understanding of any one obscured, he simply helps to pluck out his eyes; if he sees any one already blind, seeking peace in vanities, — for all the things of this world are so utterly vanity, that they seem to be but the playthings of a child, — he sees at once that such a one is a child; he treats him as a child, and ventures to wrestle with him — not once, but often.
May it please our Lord that I be not one of these; and may His Majesty give me grace to take that for peace which is really peace, that for honour which is really honour, and that for delight which is really a delight. Let me never mistake one thing for another — and then I snap my fingers at all the devils, for they shall be afraid of me. I do not understand those terrors which make us cry out, Satan, Satan! when we may say, God, God! and make Satan tremble. Do we not know that he cannot stir without the permission of God? What does it mean? I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself. Satan can do me no harm whatever, but they can trouble me very much, particularly if they be confessors. I have spent some years of such great anxiety, that even now I am amazed that I was able to bear it. Blessed be our Lord, who has so effectually helped me!

Source: Shantaram

Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

Source: Dream Warrior

Source: Jayber Crow

Source: Dark Side of the Moon

Source: The Club Dumas

Source: Horns

Source: The Queen of the Damned

Source: The Exorcist

Joyland

Source: A Clockwork Orange

Source: Dermaphoria

Source: The Vampire Lestat

Source: Clockwork Prince

Source: Just Kids

Source: Angelology

Source: The Summoning

Source: Frankenstein

Source: Dragonfly in Amber

Source: The Forbidden Game

Source: This Side of Paradise

Source: Voyager

Source: East of Eden

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

Source: River Marked

Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 5.
Context: I resolved passionately to reach the spiritual causes of phenomena, and to dominate the material world which I detested by their means. I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

Source: Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You

Needful Things (1991)

Source: Every Day

Source: Bloodfever

Source: Odd Thomas

Source: The Bourne Ultimatum

Source: The Queen of the Damned

Source: Assholes Finish First

Source: The Sociopath Next Door

Source: Interior Castle

Source: The Island of the Day Before

Source: The Battle for Skandia

Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Source: Devil May Cry

Source: Deeply Odd

Attributed in Einstein: The Life and Times by Ronald W. Clark (1971), p. 737. The only source given in the end notes is "personal information". Einstein is said to have made this comment when a box of candy was being passed around after dinner, and he said that his doctor wouldn't let him eat it. The book also says that 'A friend asked him why it was the devil and not God who had imposed the penalty. "What's the difference?" he answered. "One has a plus in front, the other a minus."'.
Attributed in posthumous publications

Source: The Hound of the Baskervilles

Source: The Passion

Source: In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead

Source: Bullet

Source: The Birth of Venus

Source: The Queen of the Damned

Source: Essays and Aphorisms

Source: Burned

Source: The Forbidden Game

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

Source: No Mercy

Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), Gotta Serve Somebody
Variant: It may be the Devil or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody.

Author's prologue.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564)

Source: The Lost Princess: A Double Story

Source: Fall of Night

Interview With The Vampire (1976)
Source: Interview with the Vampire

Source: Les Miserables

Source: The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

Source: Flirt

Source: Dance with the Devil

Source: Beloved

Variant: Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he’s there alone.
Source: Devil May Cry

Source: NOS4A2

Preface
The Presidential Papers (1963)
Context: Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

Source: Interview with the Vampire