Devil Quotes & Sayings

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Bible

Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
Branch Rickey

Satan’s successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.
Mahatma Gandhi

Better the devil you know than the angel you don’t.
Hama Tuma

Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I’m not sure that man needs the help.
Anonymous

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C.S. Lewis

At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.
Martin Luther

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.
Minna Thomas Antrim

The devil tempts all other men, but idle men tempt the devil.
Turkish Proverb

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste.
Kurdish Proverb

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.
Francis Bacon

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I think the devil will not have [you] damned, lest the oil that’s in [you] should set hell on fire.
William Shakespeare

I’ve never seen the devil create music.
Little Richard

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.
Pearl Bailey

How are thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
Bible

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
Jose Bergamin

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.
Sir Roger L’Estrange

The Devil himself is good, when he is pleased.
Thomas Fuller

I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for him.
Martin Luther

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
William A. Sunday

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
Albert Schweitzer

The devil says I’m out, but the Lord says I’m safe.
William A. Sunday

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
Winston Churchill

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
Vance Havner

The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape.
William Shakespeare

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.
Henry Louis Mencken

Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
Alan Valentine

Better sit still, than rise to meet the devil.
Michael Drayton