Devil Quotations

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

... the devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for ...

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing.

I've always said it's interesting to watch devils cry when angels want to stab you in the back. I like that mixture.

However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

When the devil grows old he turns hermit.

Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.

I did 'Good Morning America' with David Beckham. Oh, god, what a handsome devil that guy is.

It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.

Why doesn't that Devil take me with him? It would be much better with him than it is here.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

There are dozens of references to God in the Scriptures for every one to the figure of Satan. This reflects a sometimes forgotten theological truth that the devil is by no means God’s counterpart. He is a creature, not the Creator.

God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.

The way to deal with the devil of obesity and diabetes is literally one day at a time.

Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.

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

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

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

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

I find myself evil. I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done.

I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.

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

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

'Rosemary's Baby' is still one of my favorite movies of all time. The idea of her being impregnated with the devil is just so frightening. I'm actually going to work on a movie in February, called 'Mercy,' from Jason Blum, who produced the 'Paranormal Activity' movies, and there is a similar theme to 'Rosemary's Baby' in the movie.

I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.

We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.

I could care less about what people think. I'm a Devil Without A Cause.

I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.

We all have that capacity, to be two things. And after all I was named for both the devil and the angel. Demonio y angel. Dem-y-an.

I wanted to go back on 'Dancing With the Stars,' I did it. One of my favorite shows is 'Hawaii Five-0.' I went on, guest starred. I wanted to be in a film, did 'Tasmanian Devils' in Vancouver. Wanted to host a show, boom, did it.

Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

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

The city of angels? It's the city of devils. The city of smiling cobras.

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

There's good money in true crime, I'm told, and plenty of it lying around, but it's a devil of an art form.

You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.

I did an adaptation for a movie called 'The Devil in the White City' by Erik Larson for Warner Brothers. I love that book.

But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not a devil, either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil.

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.

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

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

For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot

When you live with the Devil you learn there's a God very quickly.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

You have to say now that space is something. Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is it?

Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.

I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.

The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.

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

I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

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

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

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

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

I think that having a public career is a bargain with the devil.

When I met my wife 20 plus years ago, she was a vegetarian, so I was the closest thing to the devil that she had ever met.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

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

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.

Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

I think 'Jesus' is the most offensive word in anyone's life. When we mention Jesus, He is the only one who says 'I am God. I am holy. I am the only way to a truthful life.' No one - not Mohammad, not Buddha, not anyone says that they were holy, not anyone says that they were God, not anyone says that they faced the devil face to face and won.

The devil that stayed with me most vividly was the one from the cover of Iron Maiden's 'Number of the Beast' album.

For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff - you know, anything that had to do with old Beelzebub or Lucifer. But I had to put the brakes on it, because there's a lot of stuff out there, and the collection was just growing too quickly.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

I feel like if you're in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan.

Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

I have my whole office set-up at waist level; I don't sit at all during the day. Sitting, to me, is the devil.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.