Devil Quotes
The world is filled with a lot of evil and immoral practices which are commonly attributed to be an embodiment of the devil. The devil comes to steal, kill and destroy. That is why we must always be watchful and vigilant because this devil we speak of comes in the form of friends, trusted allies or our own uncontrollable desires and wants.
Read through our collection of devil quotes and be prepared to stay vigilant and fight against the devil whenever he comes knocking.
60 Devil Quotes & Sayings
“The devil doesn’t come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you’ve ever wished for.” – Tucker Max
“All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.” – Martin Luther
“The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.” – Joyce Meyer
“The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.” – Bob Marley
“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.” – Helen Keller
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.” – Oscar Wilde
“The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.” – Karl Kraus
“Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.” – R. Buckminster Fuller
“I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, “aw shit, he’s up!”― Steve Maraboli
“Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.”― David Wong
“For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.” – Martin Luther
“The Devil’s most devilish when respectable.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Better the devil you know than the angel you don’t.” – Hama Tuma
“If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.” – Joyce Meyer
“If you get down and quarrel everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.” – Bob Marley
“The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.” – William James
“Gossip is the Devil’s radio.” – George Harrison
“There has always been discouragement, negativism, and temptation in the world because of Lucifer.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin
“Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.”― Holly Black
“People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil… Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”― Anne Rice
“We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.”― Anatole France
“Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God’s right hand.’ Her voice grew faint, the hint of a whisper. ‘In the end pride is the only evil, the root of all sins.’
‘Pride is all I have.”― Mark Lawrence
‘Pride is all I have.”― Mark Lawrence
“Don’t be disheartened by the forces of evil. Nothing can happen that God hasn’t allowed. Even resistance is all part of grand orchestration. The devil always has you right were God wants you.”― Steve Maraboli
“The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.” – Aiden Wilson Tozer
“Beauty and the devil are the same thing.” – Robert Mapplethorpe
“The devil’s name is dullness.” – Robert E. Lee
“If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.” – Joel Osteen
“Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.” – St. Jerome
“We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.” – Malcolm X
“The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.” – Horace Mann
“The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things;
Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.”― Charles Baudelaire
Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.”― Charles Baudelaire
“If money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead.”― Jess C Scott
“I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.”
― Ludwig Feuerbach
― Ludwig Feuerbach
“The Devil teaches women what they are – or they would teach it to the Devil if he did not know.”
― Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly
― Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly
“Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
“The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.” – Stephen King
“If you’ve got faith and you believe in what you are living for, you can stand your ground when the Devil’s at your door.” – John Michael Montgomery
“Be careful who you trust, the devil was once an angel.” – Unknown
“Neutral men are the devil’s allies.” – Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” – William Shakespeare
“If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.” – Martin Luther
“At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies. _Theodore Roosevelt”
“The devil frequently fills our thoughts with great schemes, so that instead of putting our hands to what work we can do to serve our Lord, we may rest satisfied with wishing to perform impossibilities.”― Santa Teresa
“There’s only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn’t get to be the good guy.”
― Joe Hill
― Joe Hill
“Don’t call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!”― Michael Bassey Johnson
“The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.” – Albert Einstein
“The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.” – George Herbert
“When you’re in hell, only a devil can point the way out.” – Joe Abercrombie
“A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.” – James A. Garfield
“Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.” – Albert Schweitzer
“Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.” – Billy Sunday
“O devil, devil! If that the earth could teem with woman’s tears, each drop she falls would prove a crocodile._William Shakespeare”
“The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.”― Martin Luther
“A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil.”
― Criss Jami
― Criss Jami
“You may conquer her love of God: you will never overcome her fear of the devil.”― Pierre A.F. Choderlos de Laclos
“My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring.”― Robert Louis Stevenson
“You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.”― Gilles Deleuze
“Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil.”― Cornelia Funke
“Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.” – Edwin Hubbel Chapin