Top 232 Devil Quotes

At Vienna, one of the audience affirmed publicly that my performance was not surprising, for he had distinctly seen, while I was playing my variations, the devil at my elbow, directing my arm and guiding my bow. My resemblance to the devil was a proof of my origin.

You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.

The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against him by alleging the trials which Christ endured, and that it was not much for me to suffer something for His sake; besides, He would help me to bear it.

My inability to follow recipes as written – without obeying the devil on my shoulder telling me to replace ingredients or change the temperature – is well documented.

Imagine that you’re a gay man, and you’re spending all your time with people who believe you are possessed by the devil. Or, in the case of a lot of Ugandans, with people who believe you should be killed. Someone told me once that I’m worse than a dog, I’m the scum of the earth, so for me, it was draining.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

My worst Christmas ever was in 1987 when Santa brought me and my sister a dose of chicken-pox. And my worst present ever was a Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner! I don’t like to sound ungrateful, but I do find vacuuming difficult to get excited about.

For Devil’s Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is it? And, you know, everybody has their own idea about what it is, but there’s no coherent final consensus on why there is space.

The person who thinks I worship the devil and kill animals is just as important as someone who makes an interpretation that’s closer to what I intended.

You can’t call any one person the devil. Because no one person has the power to be the devil.

I knew Berlin would have to become a kind of character in my new book, ‘In the Garden of Beasts’. I had felt likewise about Chicago when I wrote ‘The Devil in the White City’ and Galveston with ‘Isaac’s Storm’.

The devil made me do it.

I used to get a lot of rubber ducks on my birthdays as presents because, you know, I make rubber ducks. But then I get the ugliest ones with a neck, ugly colors, and devil ears. I don’t like those.

But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil’s Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.

Taxpayer-funded abortion, especially the devil’s bargain with Planned Parenthood, must cease immediately. To be clear, that means I believe Planned Parenthood should receive no tax monies of any kind.

If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.

One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before any house of God was builded, the devil got his restraining engine.

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.

I only gave back the devil the stuff I got serving him.

I think there’s a bit of the devil in everybody. There’s a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

I booked a horror film called ‘Where the Devil Hides.’ It’s… you know, a horror film. But it was the first full-length movie I’d ever done, and it got me my visa, and I could start work.

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

The Way teaches that people outside the cult are evil – of the Devil. In line with that belief, the members tried to alienate me from my family, to whom I am very close, and from my friends. So I just drifted away. In seeing my three-month involvement as ‘just a phase,’ my parents were lucky rather than wise.

Do I believe in the devil? I don’t believe in a figure with horns and a tail.

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

Worldly wealth is the Devil’s bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

I’ve been a fan of ‘The Defenders’ since childhood, and Devil Slayer was always one of my favorite members of the team – especially during J.M. DeMatteis’ wonderful run on the series.

Anything new is always considered the devil’s tool.

As for the Devil – that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

The devil’s in the detail and sometimes if you’re thinking too big, you can miss the detail.

I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.

I don’t give the devil credit for creating nothing.

People have confused playing devil’s advocate with being intelligent.

When I do music, I’m really getting the devil up off me.

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.

I’m extremely ambitious. I don’t know why people are afraid to say that. I won’t sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don’t think that’s bad.

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it’s not just a trick of the devil.

The idea you start from is ‘What’s cool to a kid in their early teens?’ So we had the guitar in ‘Devil May Cry 3.’ Guitars are cool to kids that age, and motorcycles are, too.

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.

If you or the devil or anyone else could remove you from Christ’s hand, then that entity would be greater than Christ, and the eternal life He gave you would not be eternal at all. That’s an impossible equation.

I don’t go online when I’m writing – that’s the devil’s workshop – but in general, I’m on there as much as any other global citizen.

The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.

The good news is there’s no devil. The bad news is there’s no heaven. There’s nothing.

In the Christian world… it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.

Well one of the times I did a stunt was in the devil’s snare room and they lifted me up on a harness and a safety rope really, really high, and they just dropped me down into the devil’s snare.

The old Devil gets mad when you’re trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.

That’s my sense of how crime works: that it’s not any kind of calculated evil driven by the devil, but just control disintegrating.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan’s fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

Whenever we start making a ‘Devil May Cry’ game, one thing we think about is, ‘What new weapons are we going to have for Dante?’

In any character you are given to play, be it evil/good/whatever character, you begin with self. You examine yourself and ruthlessly see similarities between you and the devil, or between you and the dictator, or between you and the kind man.

Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.

I love Tim Curry as the Devil in ‘Legend;’ the prosthetics that are on him are so over the top sensually evil, and Tim takes full advantage, is just oozing with the role. The makeup and prosthetics, and his character are seamless.

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

I cannot lie – I wasn’t born a Manchester United fan, but I want everyone to know that a part of my heart will always be a red devil.

‘Beneath the Piano’ by The Devil Makes Three somehow reminds me of an old Johnny Cash song. The song is a lot of fun and tells a story.

I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved ‘Clue’ when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie ‘Legend,’ and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, ‘It’s the same guy!’ It was a total Keyser Soeze moment.