Devil Quotes & Sayings


Talk of the devil, and he is bound to appear.
Proverb

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
Oscar Wilde

It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.
D. H. Lawrence

If the devil does not exist, and man has therefore created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William Shakespeare

The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.
Robert Anton Wilson

It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.
Ronald Knox

Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
Tennessee Williams

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.
Sigmund Freud

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Helen Keller

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.
Nelson DeMille

The devil is not so black as he is painted.
Proverb

The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.
Albert Schweitzer

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Speak of the devil and he appears.
Italian Proverb

Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel.
Spanish Proverb

And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying. My name is Legion: for we are many.
Bible: Mark

No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.
Guy H. King

Sometimes
The Devil is a gentleman.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

The devil is in the details.
German Proverb

May the devil make a ladder of your backbone - While he is picking apples in the garden of Hell.
Old Irish toast

Gossip is the Devil’s radio.
George Harrison

Neutral men are the devil’s allies.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Of three things the devil makes a salad: advocate’s tongues, notaries’ fingers, and a third that shall be nameless.
Proverb

I have always said, the first Whig was the Devil.
Samuel Johnson

The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.
Robert Burton

You must have the devil in you to succeed in any of the arts.
Voltaire

Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don’t.
Proverb

Speak the truth and shame the devil.
Proverb

The devil never grants long leases.
Irish Sayings

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    The greatest trick the devil ever played, was convincing the world he didn’t exist.
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    Submitted By: Tahjai (The Devil)

    If you get down and quarrel everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.
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    If you sell your soul to the devil, the devil will try buying it.
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    Play with the devil, and the devil will play with you.
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