DEVIL

Related Subjects: Evil, Flesh, God, Hell, Sin, Temptation

1. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!—Bible, Isaiah 14:12
   

2. Resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.—Bible, James 4:7
   

3. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary, the Devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.—Bible, I Peter 5:8

4. Renounce the Devil and all his works.—Book of Common Prayer
   

5. The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

6. And bid the devil take the him most.—SAMUEL BUTLER, Hudibras
   

7. Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick (Though he gave his name to our Old Nick).—SAMUEL BUTLER, Hudibras
   

8. Here is the devil-and-all to pay.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
   

9. Sathan, that ever us waiteth to bigyle.—CHAUCER, Canterbury Tales
   

10. Talk of the devil, and his horns appear, says the proverb.—COLERIDGE, Biographia Literaria
    

11. No, no! The devil is an egotist,
    And is not apt, without why or wherefore,
    "For God's sake," others to assist.—GOETHE, Faust
    

12. I call'd the devil, and he came
    And with wonder his form did I closely scan;
    He is not ugly, and is not lame,
    But really a handsome and charming man.
    A man in the prime of life is the devil,
    Obliging, a marl of the world, and civil;
    A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate,
    He talks quite glibly of church and state.—HEINE, Pictures of Travels
    

13. Why should the Devil have all the good tunes?—ROWLAND HILL
    

14. The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it.—BEN JONSON, The Devil is an Ass
    

15. 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.—LONGFELLOW, Christus
    

16. The devil, my friends, is a woman just now.
    'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.—OWEN MEREDITH
    

17. Pandemonium, city and proud seat
    Of Lucifer.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
    

18. The infernal serpent; he it was whose guile
    Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceived
    The mother of mankind.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
    

19. His form had not yet lost
    All his original brightness, nor ap­pear'd
    Less than archangel ruined, and th' excess
    Of glory obscured.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
    

20. Satan exalted sat, by merit raised
    To that bad eminence.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
    

21. Abashed the Devil stood,
    And felt how awful goodness is, and saw
    Virtue in her own shape how lovely; saw
    And pined his loss.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
    

22. Satan; so call him now, his former name
    Is heard no more in heaven.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
    

23. Swings the scaly horror of his folded tail.—MILTON, Hymn on Christ's Nativity
    

24. As good eat the devil as the broth he is boiled in.—Proverb
    

25. Make not even the devil blacker than he is.—Proverb
    

26. He that hath shipped the devil must make the best of him.—Proverb
    

27. If you don't open the door to the devil he goes away.—Proverb
    

28. Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him.—Proverb
    

29. The Devil was sick,—the Devil a monk would be;
    The Devil was well,—the Devil a monk was he.—RABELAIS
    

30. He must needs go that the devil drives.—SHAKESPEARE, All's Well that Ends Well
    

31. I charge thee, Satan, hous'd within this man,
    To yield possession to my holy prayers,
    And to thy state of darkness hie thee straight;
    I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven!—SHAKESPEARE, The Comedy of Errors
    

32. The devil bath power
    To assume a pleasing shape.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

33. Nay, then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

34. He will give the devil his due.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

35. The prince of darkness is a gentleman.—SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
    

36. The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

37. Let me say "amen" betimes, lest the devil cross my prayer.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

38. This is a devil, and no monster; I will leave him; I have no long spoon.—SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest
    

39. What, man! defy the Devil: consider, he's an enemy to mankind.—SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night
    

40. He's a very devil.—SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night

41. The Devil is the author of confusion.—SWIFT, Letters