Devil Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Son, Suffering, Mystery

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1245, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be.

  Slobodan Milosević

  Angel, Made

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• Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.

  Tom Waits

  Drunk, Alcohol, Religion

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

  Harry Segall

  Men, Good Man, Be Good

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• The devil's name is dullness.

  Robert E. Lee

  Names, Boredom, Bores

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• Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Names, Lips, Satan

  Mahatma Gandhi (2014). “Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation”, p.144, The Floating Press

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• The devil's most devilish when respectable.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Respect, Witty, Respectable

  'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 7, l. 105

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• If you don't set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

  Joel Osteen

  Tone, Ifs

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• 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.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Friendship, Worst Enemy, Literature

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• The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Sometimes, Gentlemanly

  Tom Hubbard, Robert Louis Stevenson (1995). “Seeking Mr. Hyde: Studies in Robert Louis Stevenson, Symbolism, Myth, and the Pre-modern”

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• The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

  Stephen King

  Fake People, Sweet, Voice

  Stephen King (2016). “Needful Things”, p.877, Simon and Schuster

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• Tell the truth and shame the devil.

  Francois Rabelais

  Honesty, Telling The Truth, Shame

  Francois Rabelais (2006). “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.

  Aldous Huxley

  Thinking, Evil, World

  Aldous Huxley (1971). “The devils of Loudon”

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• A stale mind is the devil's breadbox.

  Eloisa James

  Women, Memorable, Mind

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• Give the devil his due.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Revenge, Giving, Sandman

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.96, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Karl Kraus

  Thinking, People, Optimist

  "Die Fackel", no. 277/78 (March 31, 1909), translated in "Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry" by Thomas Szasz, (Ch. 8), 1970.

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• To the devil with false modesty.

  Stephen King

  Modesty, False Modesty

  Stephen King (2008). “Carrie”, p.89, Anchor

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• Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.

  Branch Rickey

  Thinking, Vision, Seeing

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

  Kerry Packer

  Heaven, News, Good News

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Mind Your Own Business, Vegan

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• Tell truth, and shame the devil.

  Jonathan Swift

  Truth, Shame

  Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.642

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

  C. J. Cherryh

  Complaining, Heat, Deals

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• A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Dresses, Dishes

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. [274]

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• I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Thinking, Creating

  1879-80 The Brothers Karamazov, bk.5, ch.4.

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• The world is the devil's hunting-ground, and children are his choicest game.

  Anthony Comstock

  Children, Hunting, Games

  Anthony Comstock, J. M. Buckley (2009). “Traps for the Young”, p.240, Cosimo, Inc.

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