Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Meredith

It is the devil's masterstroke to get us to accuse him

Fyodor Dostoevsky

If not reason, then the devil.

Horatio Nelson

You must hate a Frenchman as you do the devil

Joseph Smith, Jr.

The devil has no power over us only as we permit him. The moment we revolt at anything which comes from God, the devil takes power.

Robert Burns

Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!

Robert Browning

The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!

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...

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.

Marilyn Manson

NO WE ARE NOT DEVIL WORSHIPPERS!!! I've never been and never will be a satan worshipper or someone who worships a devil.

There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it. What the devil was the reason?

Marquis de Sade

Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?

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.

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.

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.

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.