Devil Quotes - Page 21

Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

It was necessary that the Devil should have a representation upon the Earth, as well as God.

All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.

If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.

There is no devil in the universe except mankind's own inharmonious thoughts & feelings, both individual and enmass.

The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree of consciousness, the more intensive the despair. This is everywhere apparent, most clearly in despair at its maximum and minimum. The devil's despair is the most intensive despair, for the devil is sheer spirit and hence unqualified consciousness and transparency; there is no obscurity in the devil that could serve as a mitigating excuse. Therefore, his despair is the most absolute defiance. . . .

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.

The city of angels? It's the city of devils. The city of smiling cobras.

God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.

Where dance is, there is the devil.

A dance is the devil's procession, and he that entereth into a dance, entereth into his possession.

When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

When the devil comes knocking on your door simply say "Jesus, it's for you.

Alcohol is the devil and I need Chinese food.

Everytime you forgive you disappoint the devil.

In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not get around to actually reading the Bible.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

The angels and the devils are definitely within us, not within the machines we use.

If a man serves not God only, then surely he serves the devil.