Devil Quotes - Page 22

• The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Work, Laziness

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.166

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• Well, demonization itself can help ... to provide an alibi. You succumb to the Devil incarnate, and as a result you're not guilty yourself.

  Hannah Arendt

  Helping, Guilty, Results

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• The habit of the religious way of thinking has biased our mind so grievously that we are - terrified at ourselves in our nakedness and naturalness; it has degraded us so that we deem ourselves depraved by nature, born devils.

  Max Stirner

  Religious, Thinking, Mind

  Max Stirner, James J. Martin, Steven T. Byington (2005). “The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority”, p.162, Courier Corporation

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• Hail, mute devil! You are the most intense animal. An eternal mystic of the fleshly inferno.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Animal, Intense, Inferno

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• To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.

  Gerry Spence

  Made, Enjoy, Bargains

  Gerry Spence (2002). “Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life”, p.96, Macmillan

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• It's as though some poor devil were to set out for a large dinner party with the knowledge that the following morning he would be hearing exactly what each of the other guests thought of him.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Morning, Party, Would Be

  1959 Of opening night reviews.The Ape In Me.

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• In the deepest pits of 'Ell, Where the worst defaulters dwell (Charcoal devils used as fuel as you require 'em), There's some lovely coloured rays, Pyrotechnical displays, But you can't expect the burning to admire 'em!

  Edgar Wallace

  Lovely, Rays, Ems

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• On the good ship Lollipop Its a sweet trip To the candy shop Where bon-bon's play, On the sunny beach Of peppermint bay Lemonade stands, Everywhere Crackerjack bands, Fill the air, And there you are, Happy landings on a chocolate bar. See the sugar bowl Do a tootsie roll In a big bad devils food cake, If you eat too much, Oh, oh, You'll awake, With a tummy ache.

  Shirley Temple

  Sweet, Beach, Air

  Song: On The Good Ship Lollipop

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• Now I just don't know who to tell to go to hell Who put the old devil in the distorted angel?

  Elvis Costello

  Angel, Hell, Knows

  Song: Distorted Angel, Album: All This Useless Beauty, 1996

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• Who strikes man with love -- God or the Devil?

  Leonid Andreyev

  Love, Men, Strikes

  Leonid Andreyev (1922). “He who Gets Slapped: A Play in Four Acts”

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• See thou, whatsoever be thy name -- whether Fate, Life, or Devil! I cast thee down my gauntlet, I challenge thee to battle! Men of faint heart may bow before thy mysterious power, thy face of stone may inspire them with dread, in thy unbroken silence they may discern the birth of calamity and an impending avalanche of woe. But I am daring and strong, and I challenge thee to battle! Let us draw our swords, and join our bucklers, and rain such blows upon each other's crests as shall cause the very earth to shake again! Ha! Come forth and fight with me!

  Leonid Andreyev

  Strong, Rain, Heart

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• I'd sell my soul to the devil if he'd buy such a weakly, puny, piffling little soul, just really to live and be something besides a "thoroughly nice girl" for one short year.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Girl, Nice, Years

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (2013). “Wanted: A Husband: (With Original Illustrations)”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point.

  James Russell Lowell

  Hands, Poison, Weapons

  James Russell Lowell (1846). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.58

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• Don't board with the devil if you wish to be fat.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wish, Boards, Fats

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2697, Delphi Classics

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• When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Beautiful, Women, Register

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2696, Delphi Classics

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• Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature, the devil, that so proud and powerful spirit, should be driven away, shamed and confounded.

  Martin Luther

  Powerful, Mouths, Speech

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.22

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• A fiery shield is God's Word; of more substance and purer than gold, which, tried in the fire, loses nought of its substance, but resists and overcomes all the fury of the fiery heat; even so, he that believes God's Word overcomes all, and remains secure everlastingly, against all misfortunes; for this shield fears nothing, neither hell nor the devil.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Fire, Gold

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.19

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• It hath been said, that there is of nothing so much in hell as of self-will. The which is true, for there is nothing else there than self-will, and if there were no self-will, there would be no Devil and no hell. When it is said that Lucifer fell from Heaven, and turned away from God and the like, it meaneth nothing else than that he would have his own will, and would not be at one with the Eternal Will. So was it likewise with Adam in Paradise. And when we say Self-will, we mean, to will otherwise than as the One and Eternal Will of God willeth.

  Martin Luther

  Mean, Self, Heaven

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• God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil, the world, and our own flesh delude and draw us away from the true faith, and throw us into superstition, distrust, despair, and other grievous sins and wickedness; and that, if we should be tempted therewith even to the highest degree, we still may conquer, and at last triumph over them.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Despair, Triumph

  Martin Luther (2017). “Martin Luther's Table Talk”, p.72, Gideon House Books

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• A man must be able to affirm, I know for certain, that what I teach is the only Word of the high Majesty of God in heaven, his final conclusion and everlasting, unchangeable truth, and whatsoever concurs and agrees not with this doctrine, is altogether false, and spun by the devil.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Heaven, Doctrine

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.18

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• I believe that the devil has destroyed many good books of the church, as, aforetime, he killed and crushed many holy persons, the memory of whom has now passed away; but the Bible he was fain to leave subsisting.

  Martin Luther

  Memories, Believe, Book

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.1

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• Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. ... If the government can compel such citizens as are fit for military service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and perform other martial duties in time of war, how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their children to school, because in this case we are warring with the devil, whose object it is secretly to exhaust our cities and principalities of their strong men.

  Martin Luther

  Strong, Children, Military

  Letter to the German rulers (1524) in "The History of Compulsory Education in New England" by John William Perrin, 1896.

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• The universities only ought to turn out men who are experts in the Holy Scriptures, men who can become bishops and priests, and stand in the front line against heretics, the devil, and all the world. But where do you find that?

  Martin Luther

  Men, Experts, Bishops

  Martin Luther (1970). “Three Treatises”, p.100, Fortress Press

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• The faith towards God in Christ must be sure and steadfast, that it may solace and make glad the conscience, and put it to rest. When a man has this certainty, he has overcome the serpent; but if he be doubtful of the doctrine, it is for him very dangerous to dispute with the devil.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Overcoming, Doctrine

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.19

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• Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils.

  Martin Luther

  Fighting, Monsters, Boisterous

  Quoted in Vincent Cronin The Flowering of the Renaissance (1969).

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