Devil Quotes - page 3

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape. (William Shakespeare)
The And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stoln forth of holy writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil. View quote
William Shakespeare
God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeksslaves and claims obedience. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
We cannot look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone. View quote
Arthur Miller
The Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition. View quote
Josh Billings
We are commanded to have only one enemy, the devil. With him never be reconciled! But with a brother, never be at enmity in thy heart. View quote
John Chrysostom
I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him. View quote
Martha Stout
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil. View quote
Vachel Lindsay
The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men. (Ken Follett)
Down there the nights are bright and nobody beleives in the Devil. View quote
Cornelia Funke
I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil. View quote
Charles Francis Richter
You're looking at me as though I'm weird. My god! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the devil? I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the devil! It's in the Gospels! You travel in circles that are so, so removed from mainstream America that you are appalled that anybody would believe in the devil! Most of mankind has believed in the devil, for all of history. Many more intelligent people than you or me have believed in the devil. View quote
Antonin Scalia
I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone. View quote
Camille Claudel
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil. View quote
Thomas Fuller
The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest. View quote
Thomas Fuller
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil. View quote
Branch Rickey
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. View quote
Branch Rickey
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. View quote
William Hazlitt
The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came. (Umberto Eco)
Tell the truth and shame the devil. View quote
François Rabelais
The Devil was sick,-the Devil a monk would be; The Devil was well,-the devil a monk was he. View quote
François Rabelais
In reality, a person questioning the existence of the Satanic conspiracy is merely pointing out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. In that case, one can understand why the emperor's tailors get upset and suggest the person doing the pointing is a tool of the devil. Then the question comes down to one of whether the crowd will believe the evidence they have before them, or if they will buy into the tailors' fantasies. View quote
Michael A. Stackpole
If two New Hampshiremen aren't a match for the devil, we might as well give the country back to the Indians. View quote
Stephen Vincent Benét