Devil Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

From his brimstone bed at break of day
A walking the Devil is gone,
To visit his snug little farm the earth,
And see how his stock goes on.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Here is the devil-and-all to pay.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.
Martin Luther

Many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.
Dean Koontz

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.
Milan Kundera

He must have a long spoon that eats with the devil.
Christopher Marlowe

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.
Alan Watts

I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man, To yield possession to my holy prayers, And to thy state of darkness hie thee straight. I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven.
William Shakespeare

IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
Ambrose Bierce

Onstage, I am a devil. But I’m hardly a social reject.
Freddie Mercury

What is got over the devil’s back is spent under his belly.
John Heywood

Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The Devil always builds a chapel there;
And ’twill be found, upon examination,
The latter has the largest congregation.
Daniel Defoe

It is easy — terribly easy — to shake a man’s faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man’s spirit is devil’s work.
George Bernard Shaw

And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
Bible: Luke

Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world.
Book of Common Prayer

Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her own shape how lovely; saw And pined his loss.
John Milton

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
Dwight L. Moody

Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I’ll have a suit of sables.
William Shakespeare

Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
Benjamin Robert Haydon

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
Alexander Pope

Black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem’d his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand.
John Milton

Eve in the garden gives Adam a hard on
And no one will pardon the snake
Look who invents him and later torments him
Then makes us repent our mistakes.
Christine Anderson

When you’re between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting.
Terence Rattigan

Abash’d the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely.
John Milton

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Bible: Revelations

Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.
John Milton

It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He, too, is God’s minister, And labors for some good By us not understood.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.
William Shakespeare

Therefore it behooveth hire a full long spoon That shal ete with a feend.
Geoffrey Chaucer

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
William Shakespeare

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