Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joel Osteen

If you don't set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

John Fletcher

Speak boldly and speak truly, shame the devil.

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 Henrik Clarke

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

Joe Hill

God saves - but not now, and not here. His salvation is on layaway. Like all grifters, He asks you to pay now and take it on faith that you will receive later. Whereas women offer a different sort of salvation, more immediate and fulfilling. They don't put off their love for a distant, ill-defined eternity but make a gift of it in the here and now, frequently to those who deserve it least. So it was in my case. So it is for many. The devil and woman have been allies against God from the beginning...

Ludovico Ariosto

When the devil grows old he turns hermit.

Louis Armstrong

You've got to be good or as bad as the devil.

Lord Byron

History - the devil's scripture

Maggie Stiefvater

Watch for the devil. When there’s a god, there’s always a legion of devils.

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.

Ellis Peters

You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you.

Elliott Smith

They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases.

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

Edward Coke

A witch is a person who hath conference with the Devil to consult with him or to do some act.

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.

John Knox

I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.

Jimmy Buffett

I made a deal with the devil for a whole lot of money.

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.

Pete Domenici

It's a devil of a mystery. I don't have the right kind of feel for it yet.

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?

Dylan McDermott

'Rosemary's Baby' is still one of my favorite movies of all time. The idea of her being impregnated with the devil is just so frightening. I'm actually going to work on a movie in February, called 'Mercy,' from Jason Blum, who produced the 'Paranormal Activity' movies, and there is a similar theme to 'Rosemary's Baby' in the movie.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.