Memorable Devil Quotes

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"When the devil goes blind, he is able to see the truth."
Proverb
"The devil has all the best tunes."
Plato
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist."
Charles Baudelaire
"You can't get rid of the devil by running away from him."
John Milton
"Hell is paved with good intentions."
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
"The devil’s name is a lie."
John Milton
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Oscar Wilde
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"The sin of the devil is to show humanity its own weakness."
Richard M. Nixon
"Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think about the foundations of humility."
Saint Augustine
"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."
Dante Alighieri
"The devil is a woman."
Charles Baudelaire
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Evil is not a thing, it is a heart."
Mark Twain
"The devils are a children’s notion; I only think of the man who dares to do wrong."
Jules Renard
"There's no evil that can't be turned into good."
Platonic Philosophy
"No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead."
John Stuart Mill
"Happiness is a warm puppy."
Charles M. Schulz
"A man who uses force is afraid of reasoning."
Ken Follett
"The devil will find work for idle hands to do."
Proverb
"Evil is unspectacular and always human."
Joan Didion
"The devil is a master of deception."
Unknown
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"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."
The Bible, Matthew 6:24
"Tears are the devil's own water."
C. S. Lewis
"Evil isn’t a tangible force; it is a refusal to see the world as it is."
Richard Wright
"If you will not serve the Lord, choose you this day whom you will serve; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."
The Bible, Joshua 24:15
"The devil wears a suit and tie."
Unknown
"The man who has no imagination has no wings."
Muhammad Ali
"People think best when they think that they're thinking for themselves, but they're often unaware of the forces manipulating their thoughts. Society is a giant collective of 'peer pressure'."
David Foster Wallace
"We may display certain traits of the devil when we act with selfishness or greed, though we are made in God's image."
Unknown
"The fire of hell is the fire of your own anger and desire; it is the devil in you."
Cornel West
"Every devil is an angel in disguise."
Anonymous
"The devil has the best tunes."
George Bernard Shaw
"Doubt is the devil's own instrument."
Unknown
"All temptations are to the heart as they are to the eye."
Auguste Comte
"When all else fails, the devil will show up."
Unknown
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"The devil's playground is a idle mind."
Proverb
"A devil on each shoulder."
Unknown
"You can get a glimpse of the devil when you see good thrown away."
Unknown
"Sometimes you have to dance with the devil to make a deal."
Unknown
"To deny the devil is to deny our own nature."
Unknown
"The devil inside knows your misguiding desires."
Unknown
"If the devil could turn the world upside down, it is nothing to make you believe it."
Unknown
"There is no greater misfortune than the failure to obey one's self."
The Devil (as a character in various works)
"He hath a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous."
William Shakespeare
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"The Devil will find work for idle hands."
Saint Francis of Assisi
"Some of my best friends are devils."
Charles Addams
"Every man has his devil, and you cannot destroy it; you can only make it conscious."
Carl Jung
"The devil is in love with what the spirit is afraid of."
Anaïs Nin
"If the devil were to choose a woman, he would choose a saint."
Henry David Thoreau
"You've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going because you might not get there."
Yogi Berra (paraphrased concept)
"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other."
The Bible, Matthew 6:24
"It's always darkest just before the dawn."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The devil is always ready to cast forth a golden bait."
Victor Hugo
"Man’s mind is his own place, and in it, he can make a heaven of hell, or a hell of heaven."
John Milton
"A devil can be a help to you, but only if you don't think no harm can come from being his friend."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
Desiderius Erasmus
"Hell is paved with good intentions, not bad ones."
Lao Tzu
"The best way to get rid of the devil is to give him what he wants."
Joseph Conrad
"I went to the devil and where I found him I was right; I had to make a new start."
Benjamin Franklin
"If the devil could convince people that he doesn't exist, he's won."
C.S. Lewis
"Many deceive themselves about what is right, but few think the devil himself has a right to deceive others."
Thomas More
"Better the devil you know than the devil you don't."
Old Proverb
"The devil's name is likely to be appealing to those who do not recognize him."
Alfred Lord Tennyson
"The devil is a meticulous planner."
John Milton
"The devil does baptize his followers in wine."
Author Unknown
"The Devil is not so black as he is painted."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Hell is other people."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"The devil's best trick is to persuade you that he does not exist."
Charles Baudelaire
"It is better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven."
John Milton
"The devil is a clever fellow; he speaks all languages."
Proverb
"To be angry is to be human; to be angry with the devil is to be forgiving."
Carmen de Lavallade
"You can’t kill the devil, you can only find a way to live with him."
R.L. Stine
"I find more and more that the devil can be a charitable fellow."
Joaquim Nabuco
"The devil is not to be left alone; he must be confronted."
C.S. Lewis
"The devil takes care of his own."
Old Proverb
"Evil is the absence of good; not the presence of the devil."
Author Unknown
"It's a sin to be good,"
Dostoevsky
"The devil is a master of order; he knows that chaos wins."
Terry Pratchett
"The devil is not in the details; he is in the distractions."
Simon Sinek
"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."
William Shakespeare
"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."
John Milton
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
Charles Baudelaire
"The devil is a liar and the father of lies."
John 8:44, The Bible
"Sometimes the devil is a gentleman."
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
"When the devil is too busy, the saints will play."
Proverb
"The devil is in the details."
Proverb
"The devil you know is better than the devil you don't."
Proverb
"There’s no greater devil than a coward."
Rosalind Franklin
"The devil may care, but I don’t."
Diana Gabaldon
"The devil lies in wait for you. He wants to see you miserable."
Abraham Lincoln
"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
Indira Gandhi
"Sometimes the devil is a positive force."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances."
William Shakespeare
"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."
Oscar Wilde
"If the devil didn’t exist, we would have to invent him."
Voltaire
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
"I would rather be a devil than a hypocrite."
Samuel Adams
"The devil is a master of deceit."
Proverb
"They say the devil’s in the details, but I think the devil is in the mind."
J.K. Rowling
"Behind every great fortune, there is a crime, and behind every crime, there is the devil."
Honore de Balzac
"The devil is in the cunning of the beholder."
Zen Proverb
"I think that the devil has to do with the darkness inside of people."
Joss Whedon
"To be a good man, one has to be a little devil."
Frida Kahlo
"All good things must come to an end, and all bad things must come to the fore—the Devil truly does find work for idle hands."
Virginia Woolf
"The devil is not as black as he is painted."
Proverb
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