Devil Quotes
2117 quotes by 1328 authors
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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.
— Thomas Carlyle
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I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a…
— Thomas Carlyle
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I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going…
— Jim Carrey
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A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of…
— Margaret Cavendish
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None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political…
— Lydia M. Child
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If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
— Winston Churchill
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I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of…
— Camille Claudel
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I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.
— Tori Amos
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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
— Jean Anouilh
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were…
— Clarence Darrow
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You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil…
— Horatio Nelson
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It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.
— Ronald Knox
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He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.
— Roger L'Estrange
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The devil sees nothing more abominable than a truly humble christian, for [that Christian] is just the opposite of [the devil's] own image
— Hans Nielsen Hauge
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The devil is afraid of us when we pray and make sacrifices. He is also afraid when we are humble and good. He is especially…
— Anthony of Padua
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Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making of water into…
— Karlheinz Deschner
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You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live…
— Martin Luther
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When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the…
— Corrie Ten Boom
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if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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