These devil quotes will inspire you. A devil is the personification of evil as it is conceived in various cultures and religious traditions. It is seen as the objectification of a hostile and destructive force.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging devil quotes, devil sayings, and devil proverbs.
Best Devil Quotes
- “Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.” ~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
- “You don’t think of the devil who’s inside.” ~ Celine Dion
- “Come on, say it again. I’m a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!” ~ Anne Rice
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“Black hair, angelic face, and devil eyes.” ~ Ilona Andrews
- “We’re all in the same game, just different levels. Dealing with the same hell, just different devils.” ~ Jadakiss
- “Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
- “We come from God, I from the Devil.” ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
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“Don’t be a fool for the Devil, darling.” ~ Anne Rice
- “If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.” ~ Jonah Goldberg
- “Better the devil you know than the angel you don’t.” ~ Hama Tuma
- “I have been waiting for the devil living inside of me to stop making love to all the ghosts you left behind.” ~ Tyler Kent
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“The devil is more interesting than God.” ~ Christopher Plummer
- “Haste is of the Devil.” ~ St. Jerome
- “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.” ~ Jonathan Winters
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“No man is a devil in his own mind.” ~ James A. Baldwin
- “Doubt in love is the Devil in the paradise!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
- “Fear is the only way to greet the devil.” ~ Lauren Kate
- “You’ve got to be good or as bad as the devil.” ~ Louis Armstrong
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“A dimple on the chin, the devil within.” ~ Pope Paul VI
- “Beauty and the devil are the same thing.” ~ Robert Mapplethorpe
- “The higher the levels, the higher the devils.” ~ Marshall Sylver
- “We are the living devils.” ~ Swami Vivekananda
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“I’m sin, but I’m not the devil.” ~ Marilyn Monroe
- “I’ve a devil of a habit for being right.” ~ Catherynne M. Valente
- “Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.” ~ Henry Fielding
- “If not reason, then the devil.” ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.” ~ Kedar Joshi
- “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
- “Hello Satan, it’s time to go. Me and the devil, walkin’ side by side.” ~ Robert Johnson
- “If you sell your soul to the devil, you get more grain.” ~ Drake
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“You never know when the devil might come calling.” ~ Farley Mowat
- “Never forget that the devil is there 24/7 too. He’s very, very busy.” ~ Bill Cosby
- “If my devils are to leave me, I’m afraid my angels will take flight as well.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
- “The devil is a gentleman.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“The devil is compromise.” ~ Henrik Ibsen
- “The devil has his elect.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
- “I’ve done made a deal with the devil.” ~ Red Adair
- “History – the devil’s scripture” ~ Lord Byron
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“The devil is God’s ape!” ~ Martin Luther
- “We must live like angels and produce like the devil!” ~ Luis Munoz Marin
- “Love is familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.” -” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Fear is the darkroom where the Devil develops his negatives.” ~ Gary Busey
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“Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.” ~ Minna Antrim
- “Onstage, I am a devil. But I’m hardly a social reject.” ~ Freddie Mercury
- “Perfectionists are their own devils.” ~ Jack Kirby
- “In every man’s heart there is a devil, but we do not know the man as bad until the devil is roused.” ~ James Oliver Curwood
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“Better sit still, than rise to meet the devil.” ~ Michael Drayton
- “The devil doesn’t come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you’ve ever wished for.” ~ Tucker Max
- “‘Tis no sin to cheat the devil.” ~ Daniel Defoe
- “Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk?” ~ Tom Waits
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“We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be.” ~ Slobodan Milosević
- “Satan’s successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “The devil’s name is dullness.” ~ Robert E. Lee
- “Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.” ~ Harry Segall
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“It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God’s minister, And labors for some good By us not understood.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “Neutral men are the devil’s allies.” ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- “I turned my back on the devil, turned my back on the angel too.” ~ Leonard Cohen
- “The devil’s most devilish when respectable.” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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“We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Tell the truth and shame the devil.” ~ Francois Rabelais
- “A stale mind is the devil’s breadbox.” ~ Eloisa James
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“If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.” ~ Joel Osteen
- “The Devil can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
- “The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.” ~ Stephen King