Devil Quotes

"May the devil make a ladder of your backbone - While he is picking apples in the garden of Hell."
-Old Irish Toast

"When the Devil quotes Scriptures, it's not, really, to deceive, but simply that the masses are so ignorant of theology that somebody has to teach them the elementary texts before he can seduce them."
-Paul Goodman

"Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face."
-Nelson Demille

"We all have thoughts that would shame the devil."
-Mark Twain

". . .but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion."
-Dr. Thomas Fuller

"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."
-William Shakespeare

"The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape."
-William Shakespeare

"An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books."
-Samuel Butler

"It's very easy to convince people that the devil you know is better than the devil you don't."
-Rick Mayes

"The devil is in the details, and everything we do in the military is a detail."
-Hyman George Rickover

"The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl."
-Francis Thompson

"Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil."
-Henry Fielding

"The devil is in the details."
-Carolyn Brown

"Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil."
-Vachel Lindsay

"You are permitted, in time of great danger, to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge."
-Bulgarian Proverb

"We call her the Tasmanian devil. She's everywhere. She's like a little pit bull."
-Natalie Williams

"Old Devil Moon."
-Robert Norton

"Shout at the Devil."
-Motley Crue

"Alimony: the ransom the happy pay to the devil."
-H. L. Mencken

"It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist."
-Charles Baudelaire

"The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition."
-George Herbert

"He doesn't care to discuss the Devil Rays' situation."
-Howard Rubenstein

"The devil turned precisian!"
-Philip Massinger

"You must hate a Frenchman as you do the devil."
-Horatio Nelson

"The devil is in the detail."
-Wendy Sherman

"As is often the case with these things the devil is in the details, and when we dug into some of the divisional performances we did see some weakness."
-David Halliday

"Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk."
-Tom Waits