Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Heywood

When the devil drives, needs must.

John Harvey Kellogg

If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work.

John Henrik Clarke

Whoever is in control of the hell in your life, is your devil.

Elizabeth Morgan

He was saying, mumbling, something like, 'She's the devil,' talking about the mom, saying, 'She's the devil,' and some other nonsense I couldn't really make out.

Elbert Hubbard

I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

Eduardo Galeano

There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.

See, the thing is, I'm not only training for the Devil Rays, I'm training for the other teams, too. That's one of the things that keeps me going strong, by knowing that you can get picked up by any team at any time. That's kind of one of the things I'm looking at. You've got some guys in front of you, you just play hard and somebody else might pick you up and make some moves and get you in there.

Ryan Giggs

Roy Keane is Damien, the devil incarnate. He's evil. Even in training.

J. C. Watts

Satan always finds some mischief for idle hands to do.

Thomas Carlyle

Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it

Jerry Lee Lewis

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

Horatio Nelson

You must hate a Frenchman as you do the devil

Herman Melville

He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.

Henry David Thoreau

God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.

Florence Welch

It's hard to dance with the Devil on your back, So shake him off.

Flannery O'Connor

A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.

Georges Bidault

If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved Algeria.

Georges Bernanos

The devil, you see, is that friend who never stays with us to the end.

Freddie Mercury

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

Francois Rabelais

Of a young hermit, an old devil. [Fr., De jeune hermite, vieil diable.]

George Meredith

It is the devil's masterstroke to get us to accuse him

Fyodor Dostoevsky

If not reason, then the devil.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.

George R. R. Martin

More details, more devils.

Jean Cocteau

May the devil himself splatter you with dung.

Garth Ennis

You work for the devil, you better be ready to die for him.

Fergie

The devil comes and soon my subconscious and conscious might start to brawl. As this cunning demon takes me as its voodoo doll.

Farley Mowat

You never know when the devil might come calling.

Fanny Burney

an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.

Ezra Taft Benson

There are times when you simply have to righteous hang on and outlast the devil.

Ian Paisley

I will never sit down with Gerry Adams . . . he'd sit with anyone. He'd sit down with the devil. In fact, Adams does sit down with the devil.

Iain Banks

Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print.

Hosea Ballou

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.