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Quotes About Devil

You see, in the Czech Republic, on December fifth, St. Nicholas goes around bringing candy and small gifts to children, accompanied by an angel and a devil. In a holiday tradition that is the stuff of nightmares, the devil threatens to scoop bad children into his sack and carry them to hell. (And you thought coal in your stocking was harsh?)
~ Laini Taylor
She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil's lair.
~ Laini Taylor
Érase una vez un ángel moribundo tendido entre la bruma. Y un diablo que se arrodillo junto a él y sonrió.
~ Laini Taylor
In a holiday tradition that is the stuff of nightmares, the devil threatens to scoop bad children into his sack and carry them to hell. (And you thought coal in your stocking was harsh?)
~ Laini Taylor
Durante un tiempo había sido una niña inocente que jugaba con plumas en el suelo de la guardia de un diablo. Sin embargo aquella inocencia había desaparecido.
~ Laini Taylor
Odinioara fusese plina de candoare , o fetita care se juca fara nicio grija cu niste pene pe podeaua barlogului unui diavol. Acum, nu mai era deloc inocenta.
~ Laini Taylor
A fost odata ca niciodata un incer care zacea pe moarte in ceata. Si un diavol s-a aplecat spe el si i-a zambit.
~ Laini Taylor
Una Vez Fue una niña inocente que jugaba con plumas en el suelo de la guarida de un diablo, pero ahora esa inocencia había desaparecido
~ Laini Taylor
We don't know for certain that she's a warlock, Jessie," said Will. Jessamine ignored him. "Is it dreadful, being so evil? Are you worried you'll go to hell?" She leaned closer to Tessa. "What do you think the Devil's like ?" Tessa set her fork down. "Would you like to meet him? I could summon him up in a trice if you like. Being a warlock, and all.
~ Cassandra Clare
Oh, Lord Montgomery, what do you mean to do with me in this bedroom when you have me all alone? An innocent maiden, and unprotected? Is my virtue safe? 'I, ah- what?' 'I know you are a dangerous man. Some call you a rake. Everybody knows you are a devil with the ladies with your poetically puffed shirt and irresistible pants. I pray you will consider my innocence. And my poor, vulnerable heart.' Simon decided this was a lot like role-playing in D&D, but potentially more fun.
~ Cassandra Clare
There must be a God because you are the Devil.
~ Catherine Hardwicke
Marya Morevna, we are better at this than you are. We can hold two terrible ideas at once in our hearts. Never have your folk delighted us more, been more like family. For a devil, hypocrisy is a parlour game, like charades. Such fun, and when the evening is done we shall be holding our bellies to keep from dying of laughter.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Isn't that cheating? Tfu! She expects you to cheat! Masha, whom I love: These tasks do not test your strength or your wiliness; they test your ability to cheat, which is the truest measure of a devil. They are designed to be impossible if you play fair.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I heard there's fire in hell, but I'll bet the devil just hands you a bucket and tells you to get moving, this place ain't gonna clean itself.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Why, I wondered, did we, all of us, both the rector in his pulpit and simple Lottie in her croft, seek to put the Plague in unseen hands? Why should this thing be either a test of faith sent by God, or the evil working of the Devil in the world? One of these beliefs we embraced, the other we scorned as superstition. But perhaps each was false, equally. Perhaps the Plague was neither of God nor the Devil, but simply a thing in Nature, as the stone on which we stub a toe.
~ Geraldine Brooks
You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
~ Gilles Deleuze
They brought it to a common saying there that the most acceptable service one could render to God was to put the devil in Hell
~ Giovanni Boccaccio
He wanted to go home, to sleep. It would feel much better to give up, give in. Then he remembered faintly that this was exactly the Devil's advice. What if all this sweet winding down was the way the Devil buried wonder? Wonder was life.
~ Glen David Gold
What is the very first thing we are to do in trouble? Fear not. If we fear, we open the door to the devil. If we trust God, we open the door to God.
~ Gloria Copeland
You wouldn't believe it,' Rauve said as his shadow fell across the stable entrance. 'All black like Lucifer the thief was. Fast as the Devil, too, whist-whist-whist, leaping, kicking. Still, I could've caught the bastard if I hadn't been protecting my lady love.' 'The Scots say he can't be caught,' Adric said. 'They say he's not of this world.' 'Well, if he's not of this world, then what does he need my silver for?
~ Glynnis Campbell
Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.
~ Goethe
Hay tantos medios de robarle las almas al diablo.
~ Goethe
As he came leaping in, the poodle did not heed it. The matter now seems turned about; The Devil's in the house and can't get out.
~ Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
They try to burn the Devil out from books, but Angels of knowledge resist the flames of fear.
~ Terri Guillemets