'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