Devil Quotes · Page 20

What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil.…

— Eliphas Levi

But even so, we're not devils, let alone gods. We're human. We're human!

— Hiromu Arakawa

“You want to be bad, angel? I can teach you every position it comes in”

— Debra Anastasia

Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.

— William Shakespeare

Don't never follow your first mind, cause that's the one that's wrong. 'Cause the Devil beats God to you every time.

— Son House

“We need someone to thank and someone to blame; thus the concept of God and the Devil. We can't accept that everything…

— Hafsa Shah

The devil tempts that he may ruin; God tests that he may crown.

— Ambrose

Wherefore is this? Because our common enemy, the Devil, endeavours with all his might to oppose the intentions of the God-man, Christ.…

— John of Kronstadt

If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible.

— J. I. Packer

I used to say to myself, 'What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe?' And I'd answer, 'Everything,…

— Marilyn Monroe

Let us not glide through this world and then slip quietly into heaven, without having blown the trumpet loud and long for…

— Anonymous

The [concentration camps] were swarming with photographers and every new picture of horror served only to diminish the total effect. Now, for…

— Robert Capa

[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .

— Daniel Defoe

You must fight and work like a devil.

— Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

“My love, I’d volunteer to live a thousand lives if I got to spend any part of them with you.”

— Debra Anastasia

You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.

— Elvis Presley

One does not beg for a glass of water from the devil.

— Christopher Pike

Every time that we sin, we are born of the devil. But every time that we do good, we are born of…

— Saint John Chrysostom

I really hate relaxing. I've done three movies in a row, worked for two years straight, and to me, idle time is…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“In time of war, the Devil makes more room in Hell.”

— Sharon Kay Penman

...There is a school of thought, a heresy from the madhouse of heresies in the ninth century, that says God is good…

— Norman Rush

There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who…

— Sam Mendes

Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth…

— Saint Augustine

“I am trying now to be entirely honest. I did actually comfort in the thought that the Devil had, on Strawless Common,…

— Norah Lofts

Laziness in prayer is like handing the devil a key to your house.

— Mark Hart