Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Stephen Colbert

Equations are the devil's sentences.

Saint Francis de Sales

The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience.

Saint Augustine

They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others.

Tori Amos

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

Vance Havner

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

Robert Anton Wilson

There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.

Rob Lowe

Everybody is God. Everybody is the devil. And if you don't realize you have both parts, that's what really causes problems.

Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.

Red Adair

I’ve done made a deal with the devil,

Ray Wise

I'm a big fan of all the great movie devils, from Walter Huston to Ray Walston to Al Pacino to Jack Nicholson.

Robert Capa

The [concentration camps] were swarming with photographers and every new picture of horror served only to diminish the total effect. Now, for a short day, everyone will see what happened to those poor devils in those camps; tomorrow, very few will care what happens to them in the future.

Robin Thicke

I took whatever the devil offered me.

Samuel Rutherford

The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.-

Samuel Johnson

I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.

Voltaire

God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

We comes from God, I from the Devil.

Winston Churchill

You leave out God, and you substitute the devil.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

We all invite our own devils, and we must exorcise our own.

Werner Herzog

If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.

Werner Herzog

I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.