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Quotes About Devil

I trust everyone. I just don't trust the devil inside them.
~ Troy Kennedy Martin
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.
~ Tryon Edwards
Evil is personified in Mara, the Buddhist Devil, who represents temptation, sin, and death.
~ Paul Carus
Biographers who admire Marx and seek to cover for him will want to ignore his poetry among his corpus of writings. They should nonetheless bristle at what they see in Marx's poetry. They will encounter what Paul Johnson discerned: "Savagery is a characteristic note of his verse, together with the intense pessimism of the human condition, hatred, a fascination with corruption and violence, suicide pacts and pacts with the devil."82
~ Paul Kengor
Yes, Saul Alinsky, icon of the political left, whose admirers include Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, commenced his magnum opus—the one for which he is hailed by progressives, a book not only read by Clinton but used as a text by Obama in Chicago as a teacher of community organizing—with an acknowledgement of the devil.
~ Paul Kengor
Sheen said that the communists had failed to convince the world that there is no God. Rather, he quipped, they had succeeded only in convincing the world that there is a Devil.33
~ Paul Kengor
He's been sent by the devil to destabilize something that was already fragile. How could I fall in love so quickly with someone I don't even know?
~ Paulo Coelho
You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.
~ Paulo Coelho
Memories bring with them a devil called melancholy—oh, cruel demon that I cannot escape. Hearing
~ Paulo Coelho
If there be devils, would I were a devil, To live and burn in everlasting fire, So I might have your company in hell, But to torment you with my bitter tongue!
~ William Shakespeare
Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Trump will not respond to reasoned argument. He will not be held accountable for the things he said. All you can do is point and laugh. Because the devil cannot abide mockery.
~ Stephen Colbert
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
This year, notoriety got confused with fame, and the devil is down hearted because there is nothing left for him to claim.
~ Don Henley
The fight against Jewish world Bolshevization requires a clear attitude toward Soviet Russia. You cannot drive out the Devil with Beelzebub.
~ Adolf Hitler
As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
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 devil.
~ William Shakespeare
We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pios action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
~ William Shakespeare
Well, then, go you into hell? BEATRICE No, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long.
~ William Shakespeare
Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but love.
~ William Shakespeare
But then I sigh, with a piece of Scripture Tell them that God bids us to do evil for good; And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stolen out of Holy Writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
~ William Shakespeare
Love is familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. -
~ William Shakespeare
Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil
~ William Shakespeare
Tis too much proved—that with devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself.
~ William Shakespeare