Quotes on Devil

I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out.

Author: Red Adair

When the devil grows old he turns hermit.

Author: Ludovico Ariosto

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

Author: Pearl Bailey

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Why doesn't that Devil take me with him? It would be much better with him than it is here.

Author: Eva Braun

I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

Author: Gabriel Byrne

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.

Author: C. Cherryh

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

Author: Samuel Coleridge

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

Author: Daniel Defoe

I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil.

Author: Cameron Diaz

If it wasn't for the devil, we wouldn't be here, would we?

Author: Brad Dourif

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

Author: Gustave Flaubert

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

Author: R. Fuller

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Author: Thomas Fuller

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

Author: Thomas Fuller

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

Author: James Garfield

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

Author: David Garrick

Well one of the times I did a stunt was in the devil's snare room and they lifted me up on a harness and a safety rope really, really high, and they just dropped me down into the devil's snare.

Author: Rupert Grint

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

Author: William Gurnall

The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.

Author: Taylor Hackford

Gossip is the Devil's radio.

Author: George Harrison

You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.

Author: Debbie Harry

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

Author: Vance Havner

Why should the Devil have all the good tunes?

Author: Rowland Hill

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

Author: William James

Haste is of the Devil.

Author: St. Jerome

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

Author: St. Jerome

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.

Author: Raul Julia

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

Author: Stephen King

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

Author: Ronald Knox

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.

Author: John Larson

The devil's name is dullness.

Author: Robert Lee

Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.

Author: Gotthold Lessing

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

Author: Martin Luther

If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.

Author: Bob Marley

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

Author: H. Mencken

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

Author: Freddie Mercury

Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

Author: Lord Nelson

The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing.

Author: Kerry Packer

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

Author: Pope Paul VI

If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.

Author: Lisa Presley

The devil himself had probably redesigned Hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts.

Author: Anthony Price

Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.

Author: Anne Rice

Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

Author: Charles Richter

I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

Author: Charles Richter

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

Author: Branch Rickey

Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.

Author: Branch Rickey

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.

Author: Helen Rowland

The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.

Author: Carlos Santana

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

Author: George Santayana

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

Author: William Shakespeare

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

Author: William Shakespeare

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

Author: Robert Stevenson

The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch.

Author: Julius Streicher

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

Author: Billy Sunday

The devil says I'm out, but the Lord says I'm safe.

Author: Billy Sunday

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.

Author: Francis Thompson

Marketing is the devil.

Author: Billy Thornton

Anything new is always considered the devil's tool.

Author: Rip Torn

But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.

Author: Guillermo Toro

For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

Author: Guillermo Toro

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.

Author: Aiden Tozer

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

Author: George Villiers

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

Author: John Webster

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

Author: George Whitefield

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

Author: Alfred Whitehead

The devil made me do it.

Author: Flip Wilson

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

Author: Marie Windsor

We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.

Author: Orville Wright