Browse 3028 quotes about Devil.
“For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness”
Source: The Seven Storey Mountain
“Twitter is the Devil's playground.”
“Daydreams are the delusions of the devil.”
“If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor”
“I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.”
Source: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
“Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over. The world turns our key and we play the same little tune again and again and we think that tune's all we are.”
“I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators; to which are added An essay on the chronological order of his plays; an essay relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a dissertation on the three parts of King Henry vi; an historical account of the English stage; and notes. By E. Malone. 10 vols. [in 11 pt.].
“When reason fails, the devil helps!”
Source: Crime and Punishment
“Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.”
“this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.”
“Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.”
Source: The Annotated Frankenstein
“Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil.”
Source: Mere Christianity
“Yes, Eden was beautiful- and if I had to squeeze through corporeal keyholes to crash it- so be it. (Hasn’t it bothered you, this part of the story, my being there, I mean? What was I doing there? ‘Presume not the ways of God to scan,’ you’ve been told in umpteen variations, ‘the proper study of Mankind is Man.’ Maybe so, but what, excuse me, was the Devil doing in Eden?) I took the forms of animals. I found I could. (That’s generally my reason for doing something, by the way, because I find I can.)”
Source: I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story
“I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.”
Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more
“A shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without a man is a pitiable shred. Yet together, light and dark, they make a whole.”
Source: Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
“Here, kitty, kitty, Chico says. The cover of his cage is still on, making his tiny clown voice slightly muffled. I feel bad for him under there, just waiting to start his evil little day...Freud walks toward Chico in his slinky fashion, sits under his cage and just stares. We have satanic pets...our pets seem to have made a pact with the devil.”
“The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpose is to serve as a setting for the majestic saguaros. Then, little by little, the plants of the desert begin to identify themselves: the porcupiny yucca, the beaver tail and prickly pear and barrel cacti, buckhorn and staghorn and devil's fingers, the tall, sky-reaching tendrils of the ocotillo.”
Source: The Stargirl Collection
“Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.”
Source: Flaubert's Parrot
“If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?”
“Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!”
Source: John Wesley
“Good thing he's dead," Lula said, "or that would have hurt like the devil.”
Source: More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six
“But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony - forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?”
“War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.”
Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go
“A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.”
“We comes from God, I from the Devil.”
Source: We: New Edition
“A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson
“As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else.”
“God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.”
“Devil, do you dare approach me? and do you not fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head?”
Source: Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus
“All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.”
Source: The Island of the Day Before
“the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.”
Source: Burned
“You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.”
“And before you barrel through some idiotic Cosmo girl list of how-well-do-you-know-your-man questions, let me say that I don't know squat about him except that he kisses like a god and screws like a devil.”
Source: The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 1: Firefly Lane, True Colors, Fly Away
“A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.”
Source: The Tale of the Body Thief
“More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?”
Source: The Blind Assassin
“If a Devil is one who dares, when others hold back, then I am happy to play the Devil in this Mystery, boy.”
Source: Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman
“We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.”
“Mother’s particular devils had remained mysterious to me for decades. So had her past. Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth’s direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free.”
Source: The Liars' Club: Picador Classic
“No, evidently habit means a lot. The devil knows what habit can do to a person.”
“Well, sure, but I don't bring God into it. I think shower massage might have been invented by the devil. God invented the missionary position.”
“Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.”
“If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it.”
Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
“It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers”
“The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.”
Source: Hamlet
“We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pios action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.”
Source: Hamlet
“I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a feral piglet, and adult croc thrashing its prey to pieces. But never, in all the animal world, have I witnessed anything to match the casual cruelty of the human being.”
Source: Steve & Me
“Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fences, and the swimming brood climbs up only to fall back. Might it not be that in the dark pools of some men the evil grows strong enough to wriggle over the fence and swim free? Would not such a man be our monster, and are we not related to him in our own hidden water? It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.”
“I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
“We are in the dark places of the earth," said Madman. "Where all the ancient and most dangerous secrets are kept. There are Old Things down here, sleeping all around us, in the earth and in the living rock, and in the spaces between spaces. Keep your voices down. Some of these old creatures sleep but lightly, and even their dreams can have force and substance in our limited world. We have come among forgotten gods and sleeping devils, from the days before the world settled down and declared itself sane.”