Devil Quotes
-
The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.
Fiorello LaGuardia
-
Initially, the television was seen as the devil incarnate by people that worked in the content industry. Now over time it turned out that that was one of the best things that ever could have happened to a content creator. I think the Internet is no different.
Jason Kilar
-
The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door.
Dag Hammarskjold
-
He wanted a home desperately. He was close to the point where he would take a mattress in Hell if the Devil would lend him a pillow.
Tad Williams
-
The devils more orthodox than some theologians I know.
Adrian Rogers
-
Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.
Anya Seton
-
Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me, or from me to you, without a stain.
Anthony Trollope
-
Some sell their soul for the easy road. The devil's always buying. I can't count the ones I've known who fell right into line.
Aaron Tippin
-
The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.
W. Somerset Maugham
-
On the religious themes of The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here.**Interview with Revolver Magazine, March 2013.
Jerry Cantrell
-
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend.
Don McLean
-
A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
John Webster
-
Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.
Saint Augustine
-
I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil.
Cameron Diaz
-
Watch human nature; we are so built that if we do not get thrilled in the right way, we will get thrilled in the wrong. If we are without the thrill of communion with God, we will try to get thrilled by the devil, or by some concoction of human ingenuity.
Oswald Chambers
-
Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil.
William Shakespeare
-
God is a good God, and the Devil is a bad Devil.
Oral Roberts
-
Tomorrow is the devil's day, but today is God's. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.
J. C. Ryle
-
Rock's always been the devil's music.
David Bowie
-
I used to watch a lot of documentaries about Satanic possession - and I don't know if this is racist or not - but in the documentaries, it never happened to Americans! It was always happening in Central America or South America; that's where the priest was always going down to exorcise possessed people. So I didn't have a lot of fear of being possessed by the devil.
Chuck Klosterman
-
A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.
Saint Augustine
-
But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything.
Karl Marx
-
He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites...He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them.
C. S. Lewis
-
This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.
Taylor Hackford