Devil Quotes - Page 33

• You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe in the devil, I'm against abortion and gay rights, and we have to blow up the world. It's frightening.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Christian, Believe, Gay

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• All that the Devil asks is acquiescence.

  Suzanne Massie

  Evil, Acquiescence, Brushing

  Robert Massie; Suzanne Massie (1975). “Journey”

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• When toward the Devil's Hose we tread,
  Woman's a thousand steps behind.
  [Ger., Denn geht es zu des Bosen Haus
  Das Weib hat tausend Schritt voraus.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Women, Hats, Steps

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• Devils don't come from hell beneath us, they come from the sky.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Sky, Hell, Man And Superman

  "Fictional character: Lex Luthor". "Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice", www.askmen.com. 2015.

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• If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times.

  Francis Alexander Durivage

  Beautiful, Echoes, Flattery

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• What so pure, which envious tongues will spare?
  Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair,
  With matchless impudence they style a wife,
  The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life;
  A bosom serpent, a domestic evil,
  A night invasion, and a mid-day devil;
  Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard,
  But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Night, Evil

  Alexander Pope (1839). “The Poetical Works of A. Pope, Esq: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.221

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• Indolence is the devil's cushion.

  Samuel Johnson

  Indolence, Cushions

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• Abortion is an atrocity. Those who practice or praise it are either damn idiots, misguided fools, or treacherous devils.

  Christopher Titus

  Practice, Abortion, Fool

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

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• People have confused playing devil's advocate with being intelligent.

  Cecily Strong

  Confused, Intelligent, People

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• The Devil...clutched hold of the miserable young man...and flew off with him through the ceiling, since which time nothing has been heard of him.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Men

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• We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about us is filled with demons.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Air

  Martin Luther (1904). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”

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• The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Wind

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.321

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• One starts gambling for a joke, out of curiosity, as a little challenge to fortune. One goes on, pricked to the quick by delusions, excited by vague desires that grow. Woe to you if you win anything - an AMBO, a small TERNO! It is all up with you, for your chance of winning seems certain. ... It is the devil's money going back to hell.

  Matilde Serao

  Winning, Gambling, Challenges

  Matilde Serao (2017). “The Land of Cockayne (Matilde Serao) (Literary Thoughts Edition)”, p.304, epubli

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• I look upon the vulgar observation, 'That the devil often deserts his friends, and leaves them in the lurch,' to be a great abuse on that gentleman's character. Perhaps he may sometimes desert those who are only his cup acquaintance; or who, at most, are but half his; but he generally stands by those who are thoroughly his servants, and helps them off in all extremities, till their bargain expires.

  Henry Fielding

  Character, Gentleman, Abuse

  Henry Fielding (1975). “The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling”, p.933, Wesleyan University Press

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• Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule. Christ wanted to bring men to where He was. The devil wanted to be above men.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Pride, Men, Christ

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• Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Honesty, Liars, Dishonesty

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• That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.

  John Ruskin

  Tails, Green, Admiration

  John Ruskin (2010). “The Poetry of Architecture - Cottage, Villa, Etc - To Which Is Added Suggestions on Works of Art”, p.161, Orchard Press

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• The Devil craps on the big pile

  Albert Einstein

  Bigs, Crap

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• When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people are plundered and exposed.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Religious, Morning

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes”

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• The devil-ache of loneliness seldom deserts the bones of the angry.

  Lucy Freeman

  Loneliness, Anger, Desert

  Lucy Freeman (1955). “"Before I Kill More ..."”

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• The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian - like a doctor of divinity.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Doctors, Atheism, Divinity

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1078, Library of Alexandria

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• One cannot distinguish between human and non-human acts. One cannot point, one cannot say this man here is a man and that man there is a devil.

  Richard Flanagan

  Men, Humans

  Richard Flanagan (2014). “The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel”, p.117, Vintage

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• Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.

  J. C. Ryle

  Night, Men, Roots

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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• And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!

  Bram Stoker

  Children, Home, Land

  Bram Stoker (2006). “Dracula - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.54, Prestwick House Inc

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• A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

  Benjamin Rush

  Simple, Government, Democracy

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