Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Quarles

Whosoever obeyeth the devil, casteth himself down: for the devil may suggest, compel he cannot.

Horatio Nelson

Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

Miguel de Cervantes

Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.

Miguel de Cervantes

Behind the cross is the devil.

John Wesley

A sour religion is the devil's religion.

Martin Luther

The devil flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God.

Martin Luther

Christ sayeth not, Abstain from the flesh, from marrying, from housekeeping, etc., as the Papists teach, for that were even to invite the devil and all his fellows to a feast.

Martin Luther

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

Martin Luther

And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.

Martin Luther

After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers.

Martin Luther

The devil should not be allowed to keep all the best tunes for himself.

Martin Luther

Once sure that the doctrine we teach is God's Word, once certain of this, we may build thereupon, and know that this cause shall and must remain; the devil shall not be able to overthrow it, much less the world be able to uproot it, how fiercely soever it rage.

Martin Luther

The devil won't stay where there is music.

Martin Luther

Come, let us sing a psalm, and drive away the devil.

Martin Luther

The Devil fears the word of God, He can't bite it; it breaks his teeth.

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.

The Devil tempts that he may ruin and destroy; God tests that He may crown.

The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste.

Scott Stevens

The Devils always find a way to win, ... That will continue.

Neil Gaiman

The devil made me do it" I have never made one of them do anything. They live their own lives. I do not live their lives for them.

The devil is in the details. We have a well functioning system now. It is a question of cost. Where is the product going to come from?

The devil is in the details. But surely if the political issues can be worked out, so too can the technical ones.

Thomas Fuller

The devil himself is good when he is pleased.

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

The devil finds work for idle hands to do.

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.

John Owen

Christ by his death destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed sin, as to its reign in believers, that it shall not obtain its end and dominion.

Emile M. Cioran

However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.