For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do not go on prosperously here on earth.
Devil Quotes
Why should the Devil have all the good tunes? (Apocryphally attributed to Martin Luther.)
When the Devil quotes Scriptures, it’s not, really, to deceive, but simply that the masses are so ignorant of theology that somebody has to teach them the elementary texts before he can seduce them.
I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for him.
I decided the only explanation is that God and the Devil are very attentive to people at the summit. I don’t know if they stir much in the average man’s daily stew… but do you expect God or the Devil left Lenin and Hitler and Churchill alone? No. They bid for favors and exact revenge. […]
The devil’s most devilish when respectable.
And the Devil did grin, For his darling sin, Is pride that apes humility.
Thus say the common people that know him: “A saint abroad, and a devil at home.”
The devil is the fear you hold within The Luciferian aspect of your existence Your chains, the darkness of ignorance Are your prison.
An Apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.