Devil Quotes

They say he goes to it with every stable boy and every young buck at the court, and where will that get him when all know it is a sin in the eyes of the Lord, and one day the devil will stick a red-hot poker up his nether parts for all damnation.

Colin Falconer
- Sin
- Lord
- Court
When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.

Thomas Eakins
- Painting
- Color
- Seems

God created the world and then created the devil, to blame for his mistakes.

Simon Le Bon Duran Duran
- World
- Mistake
- Blame
To a priest who smoked: What a shame for a man to dress like a saint and smell like a devil!

Carrie Nation
- Smoking
- Shame
- Saint
To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Isaac Watts
- Mean
- Wise
- Divine
Witches admitted their relations with the devil. Our blood boils - how could they be forced to admit this when there is no devil. But reason tells us this is not true. The devil does exist and was in fact the inquisitor.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
- Reason
- Blood
- Relation
I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him very much worse... Conversion may make of one who was, if no better, no worse than an animal, something like a devil.

C. S. Lewis
- Men
- Thinking
- May
Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.

Seneca the Younger
- Long
- Money
- Giving