Quotes
Quotes about Evil
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.
We ought to do our neighbour all the good we can. If you do good, good will be done to you; but if you do evil, the same will be measured back to you again.
I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil puppet villain on fire. No, I didn't. Just kidding. I just said that to help illustrate one of the human emotions, which is freaking out. Another emotion is greed, as when you kill someone for money, or something like that. Another emotion is generosity, as when you pay someone double what he paid for his stupid puppet.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.
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.]
Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
