Devil Quotes & Sayings

I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it’s not just a trick of the devil.
Jean Anouilh

The spirit that I have seen May be a devil, and the devil hath power T’ assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me.
William Shakespeare

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
Bible

The devil doesn’t know how to sing, only how to howl.
Francis Thompson

God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
William Bragg, Sr.

The devil has his elect.
Thomas Carlyle

Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads.
Martin Luther

I don’t give the devil credit for creating nothing.
Little Richard

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.
Martin Luther

History is the devil’s scripture.
Lord Byron

Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.
Harry Segall

The Devil fears the word of God, He can’t bite it; it breaks his teeth.
Martin Luther

In every man’s heart there is a devil, but we do not know the man as bad until the devil is roused.
James Oliver Curwood

A church debt is the devil’s salary.
Henry Ward Beecher

The devil himself had probably redesigned Hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts.
Anthony Price

May you get to heaven a half hour before the devil knows you’re dead.
Irish Blessings

What! can the devil speak true?
William Shakespeare

An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel Butler

Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
William Shakespeare

The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it.
Ben Jonson

“I think if the devil doesn’t exist, then man has created him. He has created him in his own image and likeness.” “Just as man created God, then?” observed Alyosha.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is profoundly tragic that I am a slave, but it is profoundly joyous that I am God’s slave, not that of a devil.
Kedar Joshi

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
Karl Kraus

I’ve done made a deal with the devil. He said he’s going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won’t put all the fires out.
Red Adair

You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.
Hans Bender

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil’s home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.
Anne Baxter

O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you “little lower than the angels”; sin has made you little better than the devils.
Joseph Alleine

What, man, defy the devil? Consider, he’s an enemy to mankind.
William Shakespeare

The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of man.
Nathaniel Hawthorne