Devil Quotes
2117 quotes by 1328 authors
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Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.
— Tom Waits
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What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.
— Alan Watts
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God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
— Andre Weil
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Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a…
— Ellen G. White
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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…
— George Whitefield
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There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone…
— Gene Wilder
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Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are,…
— Henry Miller
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It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me…
— Donald Miller
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No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
— Joseph Campbell
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Equations are the devil's sentences.
— Stephen Colbert
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Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.
— Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his…
— Neil Gaiman
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And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the…
— William Shakespeare
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It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.
— John Steinbeck
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When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy—some call…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil…
— Gregory Maguire
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Thomas More: ...And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?…
— Robert Bolt
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