Devil Quotes

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirit of light.

You learned people have dealings with the devil.[Also known as:]You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.[Vous autres savants, vous avez commerce avec le diable.]

We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them…

To give the devil his due.[translation by Peter Anthony Motteux]

This is a trick of the Devil the better to seduce the faithful. He attacks the strong through the spirit, and the others through the flesh.[C’est une ruse du Diable pour séduire mieux les fidèles. Il attaque les forts par le moyen de l’esprit, les autres avec la chair.]

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

The only devil is Mother Nature…

The devil, who seldom lies dead in a ditch, but will have a finger in every pie.[translation by John Willis Clark]The devil, who never sleeps and puts everything in confusion.[translation by John Ormsby][El diablo que no duerme, y que todo lo añasca.]

The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Play with the devil and you get burned.