Devil Quotes - page 4

In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse and blame the Germans for it. (José Rizal)
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
God sends meat and the devil sends cooks. View quote
Thomas Deloney
Everyone gets the devil he deserves. View quote
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
My practice as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel, or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world. View quote
J. B. S. Haldane
A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains then on account of the evil which sullies it. Something of the social labelled divine: an intoxicating mixture which carries with it every sort of license. Devil disguised. View quote
Simone Weil
It did not last: the devil, shouting "Ho. Let Einstein be," restored the status quo. View quote
J. C. Squire
This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels. View quote
Origen
Africa, amongst the continents, will teach it to you: that God and the Devil are one, the majesty coeternal, not two uncreated but one uncreated, and the Natives neither confounded the persons nor divided the substance. View quote
Karen Blixen
During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whose people the sea had hitherto held the role of the devil, the cold and voracious hereditary foe of humanity. View quote
Karen Blixen
Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling. (Anne Rice)
I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home. View quote
Anne Rice
In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
The Devil is an Ass, I do acknowledge it. View quote
Ben Jonson
You have to say now that space is something. Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is it? View quote
Leonard Susskind
Now I just don't know who to tell to go to hell Who put the old devil in the distorted angel? View quote
Elvis Costello
The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church. View quote
L. Frank Baum
So odd to think of the Devil as a fumbler! View quote
John le Carré
And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind. View quote
John Dryden
There's a devil inside me which cries, "You're not the son of the Carpenter, you're the son of King David! You are not a man, you are the Son of man whom Daniel prophesied." And still more: "The Son of God! And still more: God!" View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little, snug farm of the World, And see how his stock went on. (Robert Southey)
No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
The world! It is a word capable of as diverse interpretations or misinterpretations as the thing itself - a thing by various people supposed to belong to heaven, man, or the devil, or alternatively to all three. View quote
Dinah Craik
The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it. View quote
Vincent de Paul
Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god. View quote
Richard Bach