Devil Quotes

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

When you live with the Devil you learn there's a God very quickly.

When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart.

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.

What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.

Idle time is the devil's play.

With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future.

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.

Haste is of the Devil.

We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

I had a very bad time with acid. I did that classic thing of looking in the mirror by mistake and seeing the devil. But I took it several times, because you always think that next time you might have the wonderful time that everyone else is having.

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.

Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

Why should the Devil have all the good tunes?

I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks.

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.