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Quotes About Devil

I'm often associated with parallel narratives or dual narratives. The 'Devil in the White City' was a fluke.
~ Erik Larson
Ah! Speak of the devil, and you find her in your hat.
~ Phil Foglio
Carlo: Yeah. You were seen in court once with a Pentagram inside your hand and you held it up and showed it to the press and the audience. Why did you do that? Did you feel that it would protect you, or were you just making a statement that you were in alliance with the Devil? Ramirez: Yes, it was a statement that I was in alliance with ... the evil that is inherent in human nature. And ... that was who I was.
~ Philip Carlo
When the Carlton Club, A Conservative Party bastion in London, was badly damaged by bombs and Churchill remarked that he was surprised that no one had been killed, a Labor Party official replied, "The devil looks after his own.
~ Philip Seib
The devil that stayed with me most vividly was the one from the cover of Iron Maiden's 'Number of the Beast' album.
~ Victor LaValle
Nothing sets a Christian so much out of the devil's reach than humility.
~ Jonathan Edwards
Your heart, mind, hands and feet are stamped with the imprint of the Creator. Little wonder that the Devil wants you to be ashamed of your body.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
The devil can't make you do anything! Resistance is not futile. You can overcome temptation. Where
~ Adam Hamilton
His dark brows lifted and, what with the scars and the piratical beard, he looked like the very devil himself.
~ Portia Da Costa
An atheist is one point beyond the devil.
~ Proverb
Home is home, as the Devil said when he found himself in the Court of Session.
~ Proverb
Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
~ Proverb
The devil rebukes sin
~ Proverb
Virtue in the middle, said the Devil, when seated between two lawyers.
~ Proverb
Damn it, my language is most controlled, madam," said Captain Gregg stiffly, "and as for my morals, I can assure you that no woman has ever been the worse in body or pocket for knowing me, and I'd like to know how many mealy-mouthed psalm-singers can say the same. I've lived a man's life and I'm not ashamed of it, but I've always tried to tell the truth and shame the devil.
~ R.A. Dick
In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not get around to actually reading the Bible.
~ R.C. Sproul Jr.
God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Eve: She told me last! Shane: Boyfriend! Michael: Landlord! Eve: Crap. Right. Next time you sell your soul to the devil, I get first contact!
~ Rachel Caine
I once told you, Jeffers, about the time I met the devil on a train leaving Paris, and about how after that meeting the evil that usually lies undisturbed beneath the surface of things rose up and disgorged itself over every part of life. It was like a contamination, Jeffers: it got into everything and turned it bad. I don't think I realised how many parts of life there were, until each one of them began to release its capacity for badness.
~ Rachel Cusk
Open is the way of Satan; many walk therein.
~ Jan Hus
My first fear was about the devil, when I was around fire, something I saw in a movie. I think it's about pain, in whichever form it comes. I had a lot of energy as a child - sometimes too much - and I didn't know how to channel it. It was making me suffer. It was bigger than myself, and I was very young.
~ Penelope Cruz
With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
~ Thomas Fuller
Here is the angel, who does not exist, and the devil, who does not exist; and man, who does exist, is in between them and, I cannot help it, their unreality makes him more real for me.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
My name is Peter Wheatstraw, I'm the Devil's only son-in-law
~ Ralph Ellison