Devilishness

'Tis the eye of childhood
That fears a painted devil.
-William Shakespeare
 
The devil's boots don't creak.
-Scottish Proverb
 
The devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape.
-William Shakespeare
 
The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
-Stephen King
 
Gossip is the devil's radio.
-George Harrison
 
Talk of the devil,
and he is bound to appear.
-Proverb
 
The devil is not as black as he is painted.
-Dante Alighieri
 
The devil's most devilish
when respectable.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 
The devil hides behind the cross.
-Spanish Proverb
 
The cleverist trick of the Devil
is to convince us that he does not exist.
-Charles Baudelaire
 
Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect
when we meet them face to face.
-Nelson DeMille
 
An idle brain
is the devil's workshop.
-English Proverb
 
The devil' s name is dullness.
-Robert E. Lee
 
The devil is the giddiness of the intelligence
stupefied by the irresolution of the heart.
It is a monomania of nothingness, the lure of the abyss.
-Eliphas Levi

The devil is the doubter in you.
-Neville Goddard
 
The devil is compromise.
-Henrik Ibsen
 
The devil is nothing but that part of you
that supports alternatives.
-Kenneth G. Mills
 
If you hast not seen the devil,
look at thine own self.
-Djalal ad-Din Rumi
 
The more devils we have within us,
the more chance we have to form angels.
 -Nikos Kazantzakis
 
The devil, unfortunately, is not vanquished by being told to go away;
it is the light of consciousness that he cannot endure.
-Liz Greene
 
When you put the devil out
make sure he takes his bags.
-Anonymous