Devil Quotes

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil. (Daniel Defoe)
Women give themselves to God when the devil wants nothing more to do with them. View quote
Sophie Arnould
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. View quote
Winston Churchill
There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil. View quote
James A. Garfield
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner. View quote
Karl Kraus
The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
The jealous is possessed by a "fine mad devil" and a dull spirit at once. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love. (Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord)
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. View quote
Norman Mailer
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. View quote
Anne Rice
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it. View quote
André Weil
I know there is a God, because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists and therefore I know there is a God. View quote
Roméo Dallaire
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. View quote
Helen Keller
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil. View quote
H. L. Mencken
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by. View quote
Ian MacKaye
The good conscience is an invention of the devil. (Albert Schweitzer)
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. View quote
William Shakespeare
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil, when he is the only explanation of it. View quote
Ronald Knox
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. View quote
Albert Einstein
Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel. View quote
Martin Luther