C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Devil
The devil has his elect.
Accursed be he who plays with the devil.
Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.
He must have a long spoon that eats with the devil.
He must needs go that the devil drives.
The devil can cite scripture for his purpose.
The devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape.
The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel.
The devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it.
For, where God built a church there the devil would also build a chapel. They imitated the Jews also in this, namely, that as the Most Holiest was dark, and had no light, even so and after the same manner did they make their shrines dark where the devil made answer. Thus is the devil ever God’s ape.
What, man! defy the devil? Consider, he’s an enemy to mankind.
Go, poor devil, get thee gone; why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.
No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.
If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
The meanest thing in the world is—the devil.
Let me say “amen” betimes, lest the devil cross my prayer.
The devil shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs—he will give the devil his due.