Devil Quotes - Page 8

• The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Evil, Helping, Servant

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

  Billy Sunday

  Doors, Temptation, Keyholes

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.

  Helen Rowland

  Saint, Literature, Married

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.40, Lulu.com

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• What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.

  John Heywood

  Belly

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• What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, People, Drag

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• I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

  Lord Byron

  Thinking, Humanity, Literature

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2725, Delphi Classics

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• Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.

  Robert Ludlum

  Games, Play, Gentleman

  Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.1878, Bantam

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• He must have a long spoon that eats with the devil.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Long, Spoons

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• 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.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Men, Rude, Beast

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• If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

  Winston Churchill

  Not Giving Up, House, Hell

  The Second World War vol. 3 (1950)

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• Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.

  Benedict Joseph Labre

  Christian, Thinking, Flames

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• If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Life, Prayer

  Bob Marley (1982*). “Bob Marley & Other Sounds' Lyrics”

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• I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for him

  Martin Luther

  Laughing, Faces, Satan

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• With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

  Thomas Fuller

  Hypocrisy, Hamlet And Ophelia, Sugar

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• I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Despair, Knows

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• He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

  Thomas Fuller

  Fall, Men, Grieving

  Thomas Fuller (1831). “The Holy and Profane States: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings”, p.156

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• The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Real, Our World, Myth

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• It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.

  John Steinbeck

  Angel, Eden, Would Be

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.116, Penguin

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

  Raul Julia

  Years, Roles, Six Year Olds

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• It was necessary that the Devil should have a representation upon the Earth, as well as God.

  Warren Jeffs

  Should Have, Earth, Priesthood

  "FBI Adds Jeffs to 10 Most Wanted List". "Nancy Grace", edition.cnn.com. May 8, 2006.

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• Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

  Duke of Wellington

  Education, Teacher, Retirement

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• By God and upon my conscience, said the devil, I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things that I was forgetting the main thing I came about. This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian, said Sancho; for if he wasn't he wouldn't swear by God and his conscience; I feel sure now there must be good souls even in hell itself.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Christian, Soul, Mind

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2013). “Don Quixote of La Mancha (Full Text)/ Introductory analysis and literary poem by Atidem Aroha.”, p.610, Alejandro's Libros

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• 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.

  Laurence Sterne

  Joy, Literature, Stills

  Laurence Sterne (1996). “Tristram Shandy”, p.345, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Ronald Knox

  Stupid, Believe, Civilization

  Let Dons Delight ch. 8 (1939)

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• 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.

  Gene Wilder

  Believe, Names, Kind

  "An Interview with Gene Wilder on a Career in Comedy and the First Person He Tried to Make Laugh: His Mother". Interview with Brian Braiker, www.newsweek.com. March 17, 2005.

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