Devil Quotes & Sayings

The devil made me do it.
Flip Wilson

The devil is and always has been a gentleman.
Diane LaVey

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
A. W. Tozer

When a man hurries, the devil smiles.
Polish Proverb

Give the devil his due.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
Billy Sunday

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
George Santayana

And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
Bible: Luke

You are one of those that will not serve God, if the devil bid you.
William Shakespeare

The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps.
Martin Luther

A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.
William Shakespeare

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
William Shakespeare

He will give the devil his due.
William Shakespeare

When the devil grows old he turns hermit.
Ludovico Ariosto

When the Devil quotes Scriptures, it’s not, really, to deceive, but simply that the masses are so ignorant of theology that somebody has to teach them the elementary texts before he can seduce them.
Paul Goodman

The devil was the first democrat.
Lord Byron

The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.
Stephen King

Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

They give themselves to God when the Devil will no longer have them.
Sophie Arnould

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.
William Shakespeare

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.
Robert Mapplethorpe

The devil’s most devilish when respectable.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Bid the Devil take the slowest.
Matthew Prior

When the Angels arrive, the devils leave.
Egyptian Proverb

When the devil drives, needs must.
John Heywood

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.
Albert Einstein

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
Martin Luther

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.
Anne Rice

The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.
Stephen King

The devil’s name is dullness.
Robert E. Lee