Devil Quotes
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The bane of all that dread the Devil! (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly. (Quote by - John Heywood)
Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
Bid the Devil take the slowest. (Quote by - Matthew Prior)
Swings the scaly horror of his folded tail. (Quote by - John Milton)
Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. (Quote by - Minna Thomas Antrim)
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold; That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The prince of darkness is a gentleman. Modo he's called, and Mahu. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm of the world, And see how his stock went on. (Quote by - Robert Southey and Samuel T. Coleridge)
I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan; He is not ugly, and is not lame, But really a handsome and charming man. A man in the prime of life is the devil, Obliging, a man of the world, and civil; A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate, He talks quite glibly of church and state. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick Though he gave his name to our Old Nick. (Quote by - Samuel Butler (1))
His form had yet not lost All his original brightness, not appear'd Less than arch-angel ruined, and th' excess Of glory obscured. (Quote by - John Milton)
Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her own shape how lovely; saw And pined his loss. (Quote by - John Milton)
Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
This is a devil, and no monster. I will leave him; I have no long spoon. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The devil's most devilish when respectable. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. (Quote by - Kurdish Proverb)
Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence. (Quote by - John Milton)
From morn To moon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star. (Quote by - John Milton)
Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. (Quote by - Alan Valentine)
No, no! The devil is an egotist, And is not apt, without why or wherefore, "For God's sake," others to assist. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Therefore it behooveth hire a full long spoon That shal ete with a feend. (Quote by - Geoffrey Chaucer)
Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
And bid the devil take the hin'most. (Quote by - Samuel Butler (1))
Black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand. (Quote by - John Milton)
I think if the devil doesn't exist, then man has created him. He has created him in his own image and likeness. "Just as man created God, then?" observed Alyosha. (Quote by - Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. (Quote by - Bible)
The spirit that I have seen May be a devil, and the devil hath power T' assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (Quote by - Bible)
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are. (Quote by - Karl Kraus)
Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world. (Quote by - Book of Common Prayer)
When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting. (Quote by - Terence Rattigan)
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. (Quote by - Bible)
How are thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! (Quote by - Bible)
I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man, To yield possession to my holy prayers, And to thy state of darkness hie thee straight. I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch. (Quote by - Sir Roger L'Estrange)
What, man, defy the devil? Consider, he's an enemy to mankind. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell. (Quote by - Lord Lytton)
The Devil himself is good, when he is pleased. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller, M. D)
It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He, too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By us not understood. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Accursed be he who plays with the devil. (Quote by - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller)
The infernal serpent; he it was whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceived The mother of mankind. (Quote by - John Milton)
Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven. (Quote by - John Milton)
Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd, That fires the length of Ophiucus huge In th' artic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war. (Quote by - John Milton)
