It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.
~ Robert Southey
Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
~ Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
~ Michel De Montaigne
When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle with the devil, shouldn't that be a subject for discussion and debate?
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.
~ Sharon Salzberg
For the record, I don't worship the devil. I just hate religion.
~ Tyler
Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
~ Billy Graham
The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
~ Jerry Falwell
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
History proves that the white man is a devil.
~ Malcolm X
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.
~ Learned Hand
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.
~ Rumi
Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.
~ Tom Waits
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
~ Martin Luther
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
~ Andre Weil
Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
~ Gary Busey
I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.
~ Hugh Jackman
Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith.
~ Ellen G. White
Beauty and the devil are the same thing.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
~ Ambrose Bierce
If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work.
~ John Harvey Kellogg
Neutral men are the devil's allies.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.
~ Bob Marley
Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.
~ Richard Savage
