Quotes about devil

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“A woman being never at a loss… the devil always sticks by them.”

“Eve: She told me last!
Shane: Boyfriend!
Michael: Landlord!
Eve: Crap. Right. Next time you sell your soul to the devil, I get first contact!”

“Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil.”

“If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.”

“the Devil's hand directs our every move - / the things we loathed become the things we love”

“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.”

“The only angels we need invoke are those of our better nature: reason, honesty, and love. The only demons we must fear are those that lurk inside every human mind: ignorance, hatred, greed, and, which is surely the devil's masterpiece.”

“Fear you?" she said without thinking. "Good God, I would never do that."

Easing her head back, Westcliff looked at her while a slow smile spread across his face. "No, you wouldn't," he agreed. "You'd spit in the devil's eye if it suited you.”

“His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that… only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.”

“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.”

“Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.”

“Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil.”

“So if the punks come here, they’re going to dance with the devil and get the short end of the horn. (Zarek)
No one better than my Zarek to rip someone’s head off. You two should get along famously. (Astrid)”

“If the devil doesn't exist… how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?”

“You don’t knock on the devil’s door, boy, unless you want him to answer. (Ravyn)”

“Everyone gets the devil he deserves.”

“Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.”

“In the flesh,” Maharet said. “In the flesh all wisdom begins. Beware the thing that has no flesh. Beware the gods, beware the, beware the devil.”

“As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else.”

“The devil can quote scripture.”

“If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.”

“Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.”

“I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.”

“… you cannot shake hands with the Devil and not get sulphur on your sleeve.”

“Will: 'Singing the praises of our fair city? We treat you well here, don't we, James? I doubt I'd have that kind of luck in Shanghai. What do you call us there again?'
Jem: 'Yang guizi… foreign devils.”

“Later he would say that the Church led him to God, and LSD led him to universe. He also said that art led him to the devil, and sex kept him with the devil.”

“Angel and devil,” he said. “One is but a shade of the other.”

“It's because when we sneeze, our soul flies out our nose and if no one says 'bless you,' the devil can snatch it.”

“Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.”

“Tell him, we are not devils but we have friends who are.”

“I know nothing of god or the devil. I have never learned a secret nor found a cure that would damn or save my soul.”

“If it was a sin for you to choose me… then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it.”

“It cast an unholy glow all around him - which was entirely appropriate, because Julian was as seductive as mortal sin and as haughty as the devil.”

“For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.”

“Equations are the devil's sentences.”

“I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.”

“Oh, Lord!" This must be what it's like to make love in Hell," he whispered. "With a burning she-devil.”

“The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.”

“But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man.”

“It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.”

“Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.”

“Mercy," he said,"in a fair fight between near equals, I'll back you every time. It's the demons, vampires, and river devils I worry about, and I'm working on that.”

“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.”

“If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.”

“TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.”

“The devil's voice is sweet to hear.”

“I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.”

“For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness”

“Nuns? They'd take one look at Barrons and decide the devil himself had come knockng. He not only looked dangerous, he emanated something that made even me feel like crossing myself sometimes, and I'm not religious.”

“I admit that I ain't no angel, I admit that I ain't no saint-- I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they're so hard to find…”

“I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.”

“Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.”

“You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.”

“One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.”

“Yes, I know," "And I love to hear you say it, Louis. I need to hear you say it. I don't think anyone will ever say it quite like you do. Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!”

“… the devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for…”

“I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.”

“The devil frequently fills our thoughts with great schemes, so that instead of putting our hands to what work we can do to serve our Lord, we may rest satisfied with wishing to perform impossibilities.”

“All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.”

“Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.”

“Romans 6 - Our flesh is the instrument that Satan works through. When we say no to the flesh, we say no to the devil.”

“Now," said Halt, "all I have to do is work out a way of beating these horse-riding devils."
Erak grinned at him. "That should be child's play," he said. "The hard part will be convincing Ragnak about it.”

“Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.”

“It's not fair to show someone the sun and then banish him from it. Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone. -Acheron”

“Listen, child—if you’re at a party with a hundred people and one of them is the devil, he’ll be the last one you’d suspect.”

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

“The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?”

“I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.”

“When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.”

“I’d learned a long time ago that you can’t prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it’s the devil to prove you didn’t do something.”

“Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!”

“The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.”

“You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" "That's what you are! You are the devil himself!”

“Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.”

“I want to tell her revenge is a devil you don’t want to worship. In destroying your enemy you become it.”

“If you lose, there's the devil to pay.”

“My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace.”

“You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.”

“Boy, you knock on the devil's door and he will head slam you through the wall.”

“You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody…”

“Come, pluck up a good heart; speak the truth and shame the devil.”

“I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.”

“But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.”

“So, been attacked by any vampires yet?"
"Not one."
"Zombies? Giant spiders? Water monsters?"
It's been really quiet on the supernatural front"
"Too bad, 'cause I got attacked by a devil dog. It was not awesome.”

“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.”

“Part of her revolted against the insanity of the rules. Part of her was grateful. In a world of chaos, any guidelines helped. And she knew that each day she remained alive,. One plus one plus one. The Devil's arithmetic…”

“God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.'
'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.”

“No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it - no place to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather.”

“We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.”

“What the devil is Chocho?' Will whispered.
Horace's grin broadened. 'You are. It's what the men call you,' he said. Then he added, 'It's a term of great respect.'
Behind them, Halt nodded confirmation. 'Great respect,' he agreed.”

“When God ignores you, the devil starts looking good.”

“No man is a devil in his own mind.”

“You really are here. (Thanatos)
Hair of the dog, baby. Sooner or later, we all dance with the devil. Tonight, it’s your turn. (Zarek)”

“You looking good."
"Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.”

“Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone.”

“To be honest, I think cell phones were invented by the devil.”

“A mother-in-law dies only when another devil is needed in hell.”

“Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.”

“Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.”