best quotations about
Devil |
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Quotations
 | God is on your side? Is He a Conservative? The Devil's on my side, he's a good Communist. — Joseph Stalin, 1879-1953, Soviet leader (to Churchill) 54 likes |
 | God exists. He is the devil. — Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist 15 likes |
 | The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that does not exist. — Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867, French poet 13 likes |
 | The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 11 likes |
 | I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 9 likes |
 | The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 9 likes |
 | The devil is not as black as he is painted. — Dante, 1265-1321, Italian poet 8 likes |
 | Once we begin to want, we fall under the jurisdiction of the Devil. — Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher 7 likes |
 | It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes. — Thomas Paine, 1737-1809, English-American writer 7 likes |
 | The Devil would be the best way out as an excuse for God. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 7 likes |
 | God fishes souls with a fishing rod, Satan fishes them with a net. — Alexandre Dumas, 1802-1870, French writer 7 likes |
 | The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 6 likes |
 | The devil himself is good when he is pleased. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 5 likes |
 | I believe there is no devil but fear. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 4 likes |
 | God expresses himself through all things, the devil only through man. — Paul Carvel, 1964-, Belgian author of maxims 4 likes |
 | Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 4 likes |
 | With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil. — Jean Anouilh, 1910-1987, French playwright 3 likes |
| We read in Rabelais of how the Devil took flight when the woman showed him her vulva. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 3 likes |
 | The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him. — William Hazlitt , 1778-1830, English essayist & critic 1 likes |
 | We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book. — Anatole France, 1844-1924, French writer, Nobel 1921 1 likes |
 | The devil, depend upon it, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. — Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894, Scottish writer 1 likes |
 | The greatest error of our time is not to proclaim that God is dead, but to believe that the devil has died. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 1 likes |
