Quotes
Quotes about Devil
If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man,â it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.
You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge.
Why should the devil have all the good tunes?.
The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.
A church debt is the devil's salary.
Had the devil come to our first parents personally and unmasked, they would have more easily seen the deception.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world.
Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all.
The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.
And bid the devil take the hin'most.
Here is the devil-and-all to pay.
"I think if the devil doesn't exist, then man has created him. He has created him in his own image and likeness." "Just as man created God, then?" observed Alyosha.
No, no! The devil is an egotist, And is not apt, without why or wherefore, "For God's sake," others to assist. [Ger., Nein, nein! Der Teufel ist ein Egoist Und thut nicht leicht um Gottes Willen, Was einem Andern nutzlich ist.]
Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks. [Ger., Auch die Kultur, die alle Welt beleckt, Hat auf den Teufel sich erstreckt.]
I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan; He is not ugly, and is not lame, But really a handsome and charming man. A man in the prime of life is the devil, Obliging, a man of the world, and civil; A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate, He talks quite glibly of church and state.
When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil drives.)
What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it.
Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter.
Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her own shape how lovely; saw And pined his loss.
Bid the Devil take the slowest.
Accursed be he who plays with the devil. [Ger., Verflucht wer mit dem Teufel spielt.]
