Devil Quotes

The difference between God and the Devil, is that God creates and organizes, while the whole study of the Devil is to destroy. Brigham Young

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are. Karl Kraus

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. William Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice, 1:iii)

If the devil doesn’t exist and, therefore, man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness. Feodor Dostoyevsky

Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The Devil always builds a chapel there;
And ‘t will be found, upon examination,
The latter has the largest congregation
Daniel Defoe

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff. Aleister Crowley

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck. William James