Devil Himself Quotes

“Though the people of this modest village were not accustomed to seeing such barbaric men as Varg, it was his inhuman features that had the citizens of Fellenshire Village on edge. Not only was Varg's hair whiter than an old wise man's beard, but he was nearly six and a half feet tall and easily towered over the shaken folk of the village. His enormous stature alone would intimidate even the most hardened warriors, but with Varg's hair paired with his silver eyes, the people of this small town whispered that the devil himself may be walking amongst them.”

— Brittany Comeaux

“I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.”

— Teresa Of Ávila

“If only there was something to trade, someone to trade with; Cass would rip her soul from her body and hand it to the devil himself, would walk into the gates of hell with her head held high if someone could just take care of Ruthie.”

— Sophie Littlefield

“Cry your grief to God. Howl to the heavens. Tear your shirt. Your hair. Your flesh. Gouge out your eyes. Carve out your heart. And what will you get from Him? Only silence. Indifference. But merely stand looking at the playbills, sighing because your name is not on them, and the devil himself appears at your elbow full of sympathy and suggestions. And that's why I did it ... Because God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

“I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.”

— Dodie Smith

“Ignorance is the parent of fear, and being completely nonplussed and confounded about the stranger, I confess I was now as much afraid of him as if it was the devil himself who had thus broken into my room at the dead of night.”

— Herman Melville

“Nuns? They'd take one look at Barrons and decide the devil himself had come knockng. He not only looked dangerous, he emanated something that made even me feel like crossing myself sometimes, and I'm not religious.”

— Karen Marie Moning

“You tried to barter with the devil himself for me, you crazy woman. Bloody hell, doona you ever risk your life for mine. Ever! Do you hear me?”

— Karen Marie Moning

“How she could walk out his door, that she was strong enough to break the connection his body was glued into, even when she wasn't there, had stunned him stupid. He'd always figured they'd drown together in the endlessness of their attraction. He loved her so much-it was like the devil himself was squeezing his heart. And she'd said she loved him ... Beckett Taylor #ReturntoPoughkeepsie”

— Debra Anastasia

“Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.”

— Horatio Nelson

“Behind that rough facade, customers drank beer and danced, activities that to any good Southern Baptist invoked the Devil himself.”

— Tom Robbins

“With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.”

— Thomas Fuller

“You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" "That's what you are! You are the devil himself!”

— Anne Rice

“Thane Ealdian prowls the earth once more. Shutter your houses. Bar your doors. Offer him gold and women to satisfy his cravings. A black dragon is like the very devil himself.”

— Erin Kellison

“Amy said, "So, you're making a flamethrower?"
"Amy, we gotta be prepared. We don't know what we'll find in that place, but for all we know it could be the Devil himself."
"David, what possible good is that thing gonna do?"
"Oh, no, you didn't hear me. I said it's a flamethrower." Girls.”

— David Wong

“Mary was convinced that because of some sin she had unwittingly committed in her life, she was mated with the devil himself. She really believed this because her husband told her so. "I am the devil himself," he told her frequently.”

— Betty Smith

“But, along with the street lamp, everything breathes deceit. It lies all the time, this Nevsky Prospect, but most of all at the time when night heaves its dense mass upon it and sets off the white and pale yellow walls of the houses, when the whole city turns into a rumbling and brilliance, myriads of carriages tumble from the bridges, postillions shout and bounce on their horses, and the devil himself lights the lamps only so as to show everything not as it really looks.”

— Nikolai Gogol

“Handsome as sin and more dangerous than the devil himself, Braden MacAllister had but one affliction in life. He adored all women.”

— Kinley MacGregor

“Wow, Callie! I bet Finn could pick you up.
Callie could feel the heat coming up the back of her neck, but she couldn't stop it. Soldiers didn't blush. They were mean and tough and could take out snakes, spiders, and even enemy combatants. But a visual of her hanging over Finn's back with her butt so close to his lips that he could kiss it
well, hell's belles, that would make the devil himself blush.”

— Carolyn Brown

“I could see the two sides hardening, their feelings intensifying, as both began to think the other not just wrong, but hideous, venal ... in league with the devil himself.”

— James Redfield

“May the devil himself splatter you with dung.”

— Jean Cocteau

“Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.”

— Billy Graham

“So, our weapons are the Word used in various ways. We can pray the word, speak the word, sing the word, and study the word. As Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians, our weapons are not carnal (fleshly) weapons; they are spiritual. We need spiritual weapons because we are fighting master spirits, yes, even the devil himself. Even Jesus used the weapon of the Word in the wilderness to defeat the devil. (See Luke 4:1-13.) Each time the devil lied to Him, Jesus responded with, "It is written," and quoted him the Word.”

— Joyce Meyer

“We give you best, Holmes. I believe you are the devil himself.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Count Sylvius, "We give you best, Holmes. I believe you are the devil himself."
"Not far from him, at any rate," Holmes answered witha polite smile.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I'm honest enough to say that I dinna care what the right and wrong of it may be, so long as you're here wi' me, Claire," he said softly. "If it was a sin for you to choose me ... then I would go to the devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it." He lifted my foot and gently kissed the tip of my big toe.
I laid my hand on his head; the short hair felt bristly but soft, like a very young hedgehog.
"I don't think it was wrong," I said softly. "But if it was ... then I'll go to the devil with you, Jamie Fraser.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“I don't count that relationship with Ricky. It's just like a blip at this point. I had to fall in love with the devil himself to get this sweet angel, Jack.”

— Christie Brinkley

“In short, Nance, even was you going to the very devil himself, your mother and I would rather see you fly from us in joy, than stay with us in sorrow - and grow, maybe, to hate us, for keeping you from your fate.”

— Sarah Waters

“[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.”

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“The flesh is a worse enemy than the devil himself.”

— Isaac Ambrose

“We are oft to blame in this, -
'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage,
and pios action we do sugar o'er
the devil himself.”

— William Shakespeare

“Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself
Upon thy wicked dam”

— William Shakespeare

“In some ways, she was naive. Innocent even. In other ways, she was the devil himself.”

— T.M. Frazier

“The omnipresent enemy was the outside-that total absence of the things to support life that emptiness called space. It was evil and they feared it-constantly. A rod and staff might comfort in the presence of space, but what you dreamed about was washed air and a womblike enclosed cell where you could divest yourself of the damnable suit. This was the true source of comfort no matter if it came from the Devil himself.”

— Frank Herbert

“To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.”

— Philippa Gregory

“Nothing will motivate conservative evangelical Christians to vote Republican in the 2008 presidential election more than a Democratic nominee named Hillary Rodham Clinton - not even a run by the devil himself ... I certainly hope that Hillary is the candidate. She has $300 million so far. But I hope she's the candidate. Because nothing will energize my [constituency] like Hillary Clinton. If Lucifer ran, he wouldn't.”

— Jerry Falwell

“An old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.”

— Fanny Burney

“When Death lurks at the door, the physician is considered as a God. When danger has been overcome, the physician is looked upon as an angel. When the patient begins to convalesce, the physician becomes a mere human. When the physician asks for his fees, he is considered as the devil himself.”

— Hendrik Goltzius

“I never knew that I would see the day that I would meet the devil himself.”

— Busta Rhymes

“You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.”

— Horatio Nelson

“The Devil is right at home. The Devil, the Devil himself, is right in the house. And the Devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the Devil came here. Right here. And it smells of sulphur still today. Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the Devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world.”

— Hugo Chavez

“After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers.”

— Martin Luther

“I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story ...”

— Samuel Goldwyn

“Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.”

— Seneca The Younger

“Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with great pleasureEither I am a fool and a self-conceited person, or I am a being capable of becoming a good writer; I am displeased and bored with everything now being written, while everything in my head interests, moves, and excites me-whence I draw the conclusion that no one is doing what is needed, and I alone know the secret of how it should be done. In all likelihood everyone who writes thinks that. In fact, the devil himself will be brought to his knees by these questions.”

— Anton Chekhov

“Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy: sayest thou that house is dark?”

— William Shakespeare

“There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,why, they are in the happy condition of judicious, unincumbered travellers in Europe; they cross the frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet-bag,that is to say, the Ego. Whereas those yes-gentry, they travel with heaps of baggage, and, damn them! they will never get through the Custom House.”

— Herman Melville

“He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.”

— Herman Melville

“God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy. Why is it thatthis has not induced any scholar to develop a theory of the diabolical genre?”

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel