Devil Quotes - Page 5

• Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Horny, Horns

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.339

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• Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables.

  William Shakespeare

  Black, Suits

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.349

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• When the devil drives, needs must.

  John Heywood

  Needs

  "Johan the Husband". Book by John Heywood, 1533.

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• The devil says I'm out, but the Lord says I'm safe.

  Billy Sunday

  Safety, Safe, Lord

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• No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Men, Evil

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson”, p.545

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

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Rewards, Hell

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• Theology is the logic of the Devil.

  Jose Bergamin

  Logic, Theology

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• Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

  W. C. Fields

  Husband, Acting, Actresses

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• Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Beauty, Heart, Fighting

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.318, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Quiet, Invention, Conscience

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• The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Jealousy, Time, Mad

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• In all systems of theology, the devil figures as a male person.

  Don Herold

  Males, Figures, Theology

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  Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Education, Clever, Live Life

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• Say the truth and shame the devil.

  Hugh Latimer

  Shame

  Hugh Latimer, George Elwes Corrie (1844). “Sermons: Edited for the Parker Society”, p.506

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• Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil.

  Cornelia Funke

  Believe, Night

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.210, Scholastic Inc.

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• The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Power, Hamlet And Ophelia

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.199, Classic Books Company

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• God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The devil wants us to be miserable as he is. God gives us commandments to bless us. The devil would have us break these commandments to curse us.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Hate, Giving, Joy

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

  Jose Bergamin

  Wisdom, Light, Principles

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• The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.

  Ben Jonson

  Ass, Acknowledge

  Ben Jonson, Peter Happe (1996). “The Devil Is An Ass”, p.183, Manchester University Press

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

  Nelson DeMille

  Worry, Faces, Never Quit

  Nelson DeMille (1992). “Three Complete Novels”, Wings

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  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.

  Aleister Crowley

  Believe, Ordinary, Staff

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 5, 1969.

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• I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.

  Ken MacLeod

  Father, Lying, Believe

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

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Dancing, Helping, Capers

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  The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Attributed in "Einstein: The Life and Times" by Ronald W. Clark, (p. 737), 1971.

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• When the devil grows old he turns hermit.

  Ludovico Ariosto

  Hermits, Turns, Grows

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