Devil Quotes
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I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil. I have also found that what I write is read by an audience which puts little stock either in grace or the devil. You discover your audience at the same time and in the same way that you discover your subject, but it is an added blow.
Flannery O'Connor
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If you don't set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.
Joel Osteen
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I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.
Gabriel Byrne
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Lice, rats, barbed wire, fleas, shells, bombs, underground caves, corpses, blood, liquor, mice, cats, gas, artillery, filth, bullets, mortars, fire, steel: that is what war is! It is all the work of the Devil!
Otto Dix
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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
Carlos Santana
Santana
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'By god', says he, 'I think the Devil shits Dutchmen'
Samuel Pepys
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The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church.
L. Frank Baum
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The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work on the proceeds, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
H. L. Mencken
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I've got the blues in my heart, and the devil in my fingers.
Angus McKinnon Young
AC/DC
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The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came.
Umberto Eco
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The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.
Bill Vaughan