Devil Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

65 Devil Quotes
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“This is a devil, and no monster. I will leave him; I have no long spoon.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: The Tempest (Stephano at II, ii)
“What, man, defy the devil? Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Toby at III, iv)
“The Satanic school.”
Robert Southey Quotes
Source: Vision of Judgment (original preface, III)
“From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm of the world, And see how his stock went on.”
Robert Southey and Samuel T. Coleridge Quotes
Source: The Devil's Walk (st. 1)
“The bane of all that dread the Devil!”
William Wordsworth Quotes
Source: The Idiot Boy (st. 67)
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.”
Bible, 1 Peter 5:8 Quotes
“The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.”
Sir Roger L'Estrange Quotes
“The devil's most devilish when respectable.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes
“Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.”
Alexander Pope Quotes
“The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.”
Karl Kraus Quotes
“The Devil himself is good, when he is pleased.”
Thomas Fuller, M. D. Quotes
“The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste.”
Kurdish Proverb Quotes
“Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.”
Alan Valentine Quotes
“When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting.”
Terence Rattigan Quotes
“Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.”
Minna Thomas Antrim Quotes