| "In hell, the devil is God." »Kedar Joshi |
| "A dimple in the chin a devil within." »Irish Proverb |
| "Speak of the devil and he appears." »Italian Proverb |
| "Politicians are the close relatives of the devil." »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil." »Vachel Lindsay |
| "Where God has his church the devil will have his chapel." »Danish proverb |
| "To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil." »Pearl Bailey |
| "Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil." »Henry Fielding |
| "The devil finds work for idle hands." »Proverb |
| "May you be in heaven a half-hour before the devil knows your dead." »Unknown |
| "The Joker Tell me something, my friend. You ever dance with the devil by the pale moonlight" »Batman |
| "The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape." »William Shakespeare |
| "The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath." »Jacob Braude |
| "An apology for the devil it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case God has written all the books." »Samuel Butler |
| "It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to." »George Santayana |
| "And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ And seem a saint, when most I play the devil." »William Shakespeare |
| "He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'" »William Ralph Inge |
| "God is Love -- I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is" »Samuel Butler |
| "But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture,Tell them that God bids us do good for evil.And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stolen forth of holy writ,And seem I a saint, when most I play the devil." »William Shakespeare |
| "'Tis an old saying, the devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell." »Saint Augustine |
| "Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones." »Albert Einstein |
| "No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the devil." »Robert Lynd |
| "God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday." »Sir William Bragg |
| "There are no whole truths all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil." »Alfred North Whitehead |
| "The instinct to command others, in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial and savage instinct. Under the influence of the mental development of man, it takes on a somewhat more ideal form and becomes somewhat ennobled, presenting itself as the instrument of reason and the devoted servant of that abstraction, or political fiction, which is called the public good. But in its essence it remains just as baneful, and it becomes even more so when, with the application of science, it extends its scope and intensifies the power of its action. If there is a devil in history, it is this power principle." »Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin |
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