Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Servetus

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.

Michael Drayton

Better sit still, than rise to meet the devil.

Eric Hoffer

The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche.

Eric Hoffer

Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

John Selden

Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in.

James Joyce

God made food; the devil the cooks.

James Russell Lowell

At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

It's not fair to show someone the sun and then banish him from it. Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone. -Acheron

Sherrilyn Kenyon

When you dance with the devil, you don't get to pick the tune.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Ectoplasmic plane? What the devil is that? (Simone) It’s jargon from those of us who are corporeally challenged. It’s the great beyond where we bounce into each other like floundering atoms. It’s really kind of gross – which is why I hang out with you. But only because you’re less gross than they are. (Jesse)

John Ruskin

Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.

John Ruskin

That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.

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

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

There's an old Sicilian saying, which you might appreciate, since I know you have a Sicilian mother. When you have sinned grievously, the devil is waiting. ... Would your devil be you or Sean Dillon?

Ron Rivera

It's not just the impact he has statistically. People talk about how they game-plan, how they attack, and you hear them talk about how Tommie was a devil to block.

Sathya Baba

Follow the Master, face the devil, fight to the end, finish the game.

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

Pauly Shore

I'm Jewish. I've always had a thing where it's okay to dance with the devil, just don't become the devil.

Philip Pullman

Tell him, we are not devils but we have friends who are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the devils respect virtue.

Vachel Lindsay

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.

Stephen King

To the devil with false modesty.

Soren Kierkegaard

A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.

Thomas a Kempis

The devil does not tempt unbelievers and sinners who are already his own.

Tim McGraw

I still got a few more dances with the devil.

Thomas Szasz

Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression.

Thomas Watson

Our murmuring is the devil's music.

Thomas Merton

In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.

Thomas Carlyle

The devil has his elect.

Tony Campolo

Anyone who resists the notion of women preachers is functioning as a tool of the devil.