Famous Quotes & Sayings

All these problems are still there. And as they say, the devil is in the details.

Hermann Hesse

Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil.

Henrik Ibsen

The devil is compromise.

Helen Rowland

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.

Henry Ward Beecher

The meanest thing in the world is the devil.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No, no! The devil is an egotist, And is not apt, without why or wherefore, "For God's sake," others to assist. [Ger., Nein, nein! Der Teufel ist ein Egoist Und thut nicht leicht um Gottes Willen, Was einem Andern nutzlich ist.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.

Michael Grant

the devil does not have a fork Brianna, he has a whip

Marie Windsor

Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.

John Heywood

What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.

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 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.

Tom Cochrane

Do Tasmanian devils really exist?

Sinclair Lewis

Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.

Sinead O'Connor

When you live with the Devil you learn there's a God very quickly.

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.