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The Devil's most devilish when respectable.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Aurora Leigh
- From his brimstone bed at break of day
- A walking the Devil is gone,
- To visit his snug little farm the earth,
- And see how his stock goes on.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, The Devil's Thoughts
When a man hurries, the devil smiles.
- Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
- The Devil always builds a chapel there;
- And 'twill be found, upon examination,
- The latter has the largest congregation.
DANIEL DEFOE, The True-Born Englishman
Satan’s successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.
When the Angels arrive, the devils leave.
Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.
MILAN KUNDERA, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
In every man's heart there is a devil, but we do not know the man as bad until the devil is roused.
JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD, "The Case of Beauvais," Back to God's Country and Other Stories
The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of man.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, "Young Goodman Brown"
An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case. God has written all the books.
SAMUEL BUTLER, Note Books
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