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Saphira: The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life. But options are before you
—  choose one and dedicate yourself to it. The deeds will give you new hope and purpose.Eragon: But what can I do?Saphira: The only true guide is your heart. Nothing less than its supreme desire can help you.
A really well-done first draft of a book bares your soul. The purpose of revision is so that everyone who reads the published version believes you were writing about theirs.
— James A. Owen
I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.
— Anna Kavan, Ice
'Mallory,' he used to say, 'When a woman who can break you in half tells you that you're hers, you nod and agree.' 
— Isabella Carter, Dragon Slayer
The table was covered with food like roast chicken, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, roast turkey, roast liquorice and, the centrepiece, a roasted knight.
— Elias Zapple, Jellybean the Dragon
I attract dragons, something of a gift.
— B.E.L. Forsythe, Origins
Not that this deterred him and his friend Klapaucius from further experimentation, which showed that the extent of a dragon's existence depends mainly on its whim, though also on its degree of satiety, and that the only sure method of negating it is to reduce the probability to zero or lower. All this research, naturally enough, took a great deal of time and energy; meanwhile the dragons that had gotten loose were running rampant, laying waste to a variety of planets and moons. What was worse, they multiplied. Which enabled Klapaucius to publish an excellent article entitled "Covariant Transformation from Dragons to Dragonets, in the Special Case of Passage from States Forbidden by the Laws of Physics to Those Forbidden by the Local Authorities.
— Stanisław Lem, The Cyberiad
We will carry your message. May your swords stay sharp," said Brom."And yours.
— Christopher Paolini, Eragon
Make no mistake, Marin...a Dragon Guardian may not always be the one sitting upon the throne, but he or she is the protector of the entire realm.
— Aida Jacobs, Dragon Guardian: Fire
Who would have imagined a creature that has lived thousands of years would find itself short of time.
— Mike Mehalek, Only Human
She stared at the bullwhip coiled Indiana Jones-style at his narrow waist, then at the black-handled dagger sheathed on his right hip. An obsidian rapier--Fae-forged and unbreakable--almost merged with one of the taped seams that ran down the sides of his pants. He even wore a dagger gunslinger-style at his hip. Dear Goddess, the man was a walking arsenal, but he was sexy as hell.
— Kryssie Fortune, Curse of the Fae King
Dragons are among the most ancient spirits. Their origins are not known, but they significantly predate the rise of man. [This author advises the reader never to ask a dragon about the early days of humanity, as they tend to remark that we were much more entertaining as a species before we climbed down from the trees.]
— Amy Rae Durreson, Reawakening
My love...you were insolent to a dragon? Please tell me that I misheard you just now.
— Aida Jacobs, Dragon Guardian: Fire
Most species of dragons had retired or, mistaken for dinosaurs, collectively hung their bones in museums, waiting in the wings for just the right time to reemerge, to scorch schools and char church parking lots.
— Tom Cardamone, Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction
Well, we could have just given him a horse and sent him on his way, but... Ancaladar ate the horse.
— Mercedes Lackey, The Phoenix Endangered
As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nostrils. The other two pulled away from her breasts and added their voices to the call, translucent wings unfolding and stirring the air, and for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood. Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or the sufferings of Christ? I thought the chief reason was that one was told one ought to. An obligation to feel can freeze feelings. And reverence itself did harm. The whole subject was associated with lowered voices; almost as if it were something medical. But supposing that by casting all these things into an imaginary world, stripping them of their stained-glass and Sunday School associations, one could make them for the first time appear in their real potency? Could one not thus steal past those watchful dragons? I thought one could.
— C.S. Lewis
But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them
— Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock
Now then," he mused, "how does one fly a dragon?
— Nicole Sager, The Fate of Arcrea
Fantasy elevates ordinary and eternal problems of young people into stories via the language of myth. It turns “No one really knows me” into “I’ve got a secret identity.” It turns “I don’t understand why other people act the way they do” into “I’m trapped in a faerie realm.” It turns “my high school must have been built over the mouth of hell” into “my high school must have been built over the mouth of hell.” There are certain things in life that are glorious, and they are glorious for everyone. There are more that are hard, and they are hard for everyone. We like to see these things retold, but with dragons.
— Erin Bow
His father had told him time and again never to underestimate the power of something that could kill you.
— C.J. Hill, Slayers
Always dream big and dare to believe!
— Melinda Rabin, Dragons Are Real
What goes up must come down, unless a dragon eats it.
— Brian Rathbone
Among the dragons, the prohibition against asking direct questions did not exist, and-as Harrier discovered immediately-dragons were even more outrageous gossips than sailors.
— Mercedes Lackey, The Phoenix Unchained
I told you there was no such thing as immortality, not even for dragons.
— Stanley S. Thornton, He Walks with Dragons
As the dragon charged it released huge clouds of hissing steam through its nostrils. It was almost as if a gigantic teapot had gone mad.
— Heywood Broun, The Fifty-First Dragon
With the suggestion of a compromise Gawaine mustered up enough courage to speak."What will you do if I surrender?" he asked."Why, I'll eat you," said the dragon."And if I don't surrender?""I'll eat you just the same.
— Heywood Broun, The Fifty-First Dragon
A dragon for a familiar!" Trom exclaimed."That's what I said to her or close to it anyway," the dragon said."You're supposed to be helping me make you my familiar," I said to the dragon."Yeah, I know; I meant for that to sound better than it did," the dragon replied.
— Jennifer Priester, Mortal Realm Witch: Learning about Magic
Nissa, you have a kind and bold heart, Follow it, and you will never go astray.
— Brittany Oldroyd, Segolia: Daughter of Prophecy
What happened out there?”“I almost got quarking toasted by a dragon.”“A dragon,” he repeats, scandalized. “Are you mad? Or have you been skulking around the bars of Barbary XIII?
— Nenia Campbell, Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales
Let's see," mused the dragon, "that doesn't tell us much, does it? What sort of a word is this? Is it an epithet, do you think?"Gawaine could do no more than nod."Why, of course," exclaimed the dragon, "reactionary Republican.
— Heywood Broun, The Fifty-First Dragon
She slept a dreamless sleep free of dragons for she had slain them once again. The Children of Ankh 
— Kim Cormack
He couldn't take his eye off that dragonThere was something odd about the swaying of his tail...he watched his curved and voluptuous reptilian legs move with grace......its stare was docile and...loving...He wanted that creatureHe wanted him all to himselfHe slapped his forehead, "Get ahold of yourself, George. It's a dragon!"He couldn't hold himselfHe followed the dragon-shifter into it
— L'Poni Baldwin, Dragons and Cicadas: The Society On Da Run
Here you have learned the theories of life," continued the Headmaster, resuming the thread of his discourse, "but after all, life is not a matter of theories. Life is a matter of facts. It calls on the young and the old alike to face these facts, even though they are hard and sometimes unpleasant. Your problem, for example, is to slay dragons.
— Heywood Broun, The Fifty-First Dragon
But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages.
— Cressida Cowell, A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons
Sir James waved a gnarled hand. "They're nothing but feral file clerks, dragons. They used to alphabetize the coins in their hoards.
— Rachel Hartman, Seraphina
Orma moved a pile of books off a stool for me but seated himself directly on another stack. This habit of his never ceased to amuse me. Dragons no longer hoarded gold; Comonot's reforms had outlawed it. For Orma and his generation, knowledge was treasure. As dragons through the ages had done, he gathered it and then he sat on it.
— Rachel Hartman, Seraphina
A man cannot deserve adventures
—  he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
The idea of fairyland fascinates me because it's one of those things, like mermaids and dragons, that doesn't really exist, but everyone knows about it anyway. Fairyland lies only in the eye of the beholder who is usually a fabricator of fantasy. So what good is it, this enchanted, fickle land which in some tales bodes little good to humans and, in others, is the land of peace and perpetual summer where everyone longs to be? Perhaps it's just a glimpse of our deepest wishes and greatest fears, the farthest boundaries of our imaginations. We go there because we can; we come back because we must. What we see there becomes our tales.
— Patricia A. McKillip, Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy
Dragons are notable for their lust for gold, not a bad quality taken in moderation. Dragons are immune to fire, obviously. All dragons are terrifically vain, indeed as to who is more vain, a dragon or an elf, I would not want to be the one to decide. Hint: an elf. A dragon should never be engaged in conversation as they are inveterate liars and tricksters, though if you're actually talking to a dragon, you're pretty much toast anyway. Never, ever call a dragon a worm, no matter how much they're asking for it.
— John  Stephens, The Fire Chronicle
If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience. How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Now, I pray you, cast yourself into a different world, a different trail of thought; step into a place where dragons live and breathe, where they are as real in touch and voice as you or I. Where they face the same extinction every day that they have suffered in our world: the extinction of myth . . . yet where they battle every moment to fend off such a fate for another day . . .
— Alexis Steinhauer, Dragon's Flight
I saw the last piece of innocence unfurl inside of her.-Nick Plato (from the story Platonick)
— L'Poni Baldwin, Dragons and Cicadas: The Society On Da Run
He taunted me, "Pony boy, pony boy," because I liked ponies. Pony boy. He always came to vent his anger of dragons on me. They must really like us. They hide behind their Wasp Queen and pretend to hate us dragons, but in truth they love us. Why else would they bother with fucking us? That sentence probably turned you off. Thing is, I'm a very vulgar boy.-Chance Karrucci (the Sweet Dragon)
— L'Poni Baldwin, Dragons and Cicadas: The Society On Da Run
You are not wrong," Laurence said. He had assumed as much himself, after all, in his Navy days: had thought the Corps full of wild, devil-may-care libertines, disregarding law and authority as far as they dared, barely kept in check-- to be used for their control over the beasts, and not respected."But if we have more liberty than we ought," Laurence said, after a moment, struggling through, "it is because they have not enough: the dragons. They have no stake in victory but our happiness; their daily bread and nation would give them just to have peace and quiet. We are given licence so long as we do what we ought not; so long as we use their affections to keep them obedient and quiet, to ends which serve them not at all-- or which harm.""How else do you make them care?" Granby said. "If we left off, the French would only run right over us, and take our eggs themselves.""They care in China," Laurence said, "and in Africa, and they care all the more, that their rational sense is not imposed on, and their hearts put into opposition with their minds. If they cannot be woken to a natural affection for their country, such as we feel, it is our fault, and not theirs.
— Naomi Novik, Victory of Eagles
You can have all the wine and dragons that my money can buy. That’s what the old woman told me, and I listened.
— L'Poni Baldwin, Dragons and Cicadas: The Society On Da Run
When you love someone, truly love them, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to no one else, and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurt-you literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest and most painfully on your heart and soul. And when they do strike, it’s crippling-like having your heart carved out.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
You want to be bad, angel? I can teach you every position it comes in
— Debra Anastasia, Crushed Seraphim
Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...
— John Milton, Paradise Lost
Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.
— Martin Luther
Not entirely fair?" His voice became that of the inferno: a rushing, booming howl of icy evil that flew around the great cavern, as swift and cold as the Wendigo on skates. "I am Satan, also called Lucifer the Light Bearer..."Cabal winced. What was it about devils that they always had to give you their whole family history?"I was cast down from the presence of God himself into this dark, sulfurous pit and condemned to spend eternity here-""Have you tried saying sorry?" interrupted Cabal."No, I haven't! I was sent down for a sin of pride. It rather undermines my position if I say 'sorry'!
— Jonathan L. Howard, Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
That wasn’t blood. It was love. It pours out of you when you lose faith.
— Debra Anastasia, Crushed Seraphim
Better the devil you know than the devil you don't.
— Jack Heath, The Lab
He lived like a devil and died like a saint
— Haidji, SG - Suicide Game
There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.
— Joe Hill, Horns
The Devil's out of fashion.
— Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
Please, baby, you had to know the Devil would be well endowed.
— Debra Anastasia, Crushed Seraphim
I'm a Cynster--I've been raised to acquire, defend, and protect. My family is the core of my existence--without a family, without children, I'd have nothing to protect, no reason to acquire.
— Stephanie Laurens, Devil's Bride
When you just breathe on me, I want you. Being in your arms will melt me. Being naked with you might kill me.
— Debra Anastasia, Crushed Seraphim
Horst passed him a bottle he had picked up in his rapid trip from there to here. Remarkably, it's contents had survived the transit. "Drink this," he said, unmoved by Cabal's anger. "You need to save your voice for your next session." Cabal took the bottle testily and swigged from it. there was a moments pause, just long enough for Cabal's expression to change from testy to horrified revulsion. He spat the liquid violently onto the grass like a man who has got absent-minded with the concentrated nitric acid and a mouth pipette. He glared at Horst as he took off his spectacles and wiped his suddenly weeping eyes "Disinfectant? You give me disinfectant to drink?"  Horst's surprise was replaced with mild amusement. "It's root beer, Johannes. Have you never had root beer?" Cabal looked suspiciously at him, then at the bottle "People drink this?" "Yes." "For non-medical reasons?" "That's right." Cabal shook his head in open disbelief. "They must be insane.
— Jonathan L. Howard, Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
... you cannot shake hands with the Devil and not get sulphur on your sleeve.
— Nancy A. Collins
He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze; he loved the craggy ruins bound together by ivy, those dark halls, and any appearance of death and destruction. Having fallen so far from so high a position, he loved anything that had also fallen from a great height
— Gustave Flaubert
To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!" Up and down that narrow hall they danced, the women on each side of him, to the wildest measure he had ever imagined, yet which he dimly, dreadfully remembered, till the lamp on the wall flickered and went out, and they were left in total darkness. And the devil woke in his heart with a thousand vile suggestions and made him afraid.
— Algernon Blackwood, The Complete John Silence Stories
I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.
— William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
There are times when you simply have to righteous hang on and outlast the devil.
— Ezra Taft Benson
That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.
— Cotton Mather, On Witchcraft
I’m Emma. I’m here to make you see the meaning of your life.” Her exalted words were totally conquered by her dragging tone and lack of eye contact.
— Debra Anastasia, Crushed Seraphim
For as from the same piece of clay a potter may fashion either a pot or a tile, so the Devil may shape a witch into a wolf or a cat or even a goat, without subtracting from her and without adding to her at all. For this occurs just as clay is first molded into one, then shaped into another form, for the Devil is a potter and his witches are but clay.
— Aino Kallas
If you find yourself about to complain, think of your many blessings and rejoice! Don't give the devil a ride today, because then he'll want to drive full-time. So, kick his attitude of complaining spirit out of your blessed zone. Don't give the devil NOTHING!!
— Anita R. Sneed-Carter
Listen, child—if you’re at a party with a hundred people and one of them is the devil, he’ll be the last one you’d suspect.
— Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd
The difference between the word fiend and friend is merely one letter. I could easily be the latter. If you knew me better...
— Joseph Delaney, The Spook's Mistake
When devils will the blackest sins put onThey do suggest at first with heavenly shows
— William Shakespeare
Also another time she had wakened in dead of night, thinking that something touched her, and when she looked she saw that a black scaly tail, tufted with flame at the end, like a fiend's, had switched across her and lay there burning the covers. And when she turned shrieking, to see what manner of thing lay beside her in the bed, she was at first reassured by sight of her husband's face, then saw, to her horror, that horns had risen, black and pointed, from his forehead. After that she screamed again and remembered nothing until Joseph was shaking her awake, and there were neither horns nor tail to be seen. Nor were the bedclothes scorched.
— Evangeline Walton, Witch House
He did not see any reason why the devil should have all the good tunes.
— Rowland Hill
If it wasn't for the devil, we wouldn't be here, would we?
— Brad Dourif
Normally, the mortal would be emptied of his soul. His truest essence, which, if the bastard was lucky, would be released to be recycled by the cosmos. The ‘investor’ would then take hold, snuggling in tightly to his host body. At first it's kind of like when you purchase a new pair of shoes. How the hard leather around the opening digs into the flesh it surrounds. Then, after a short period of breaking them in, it begins to only feel uncomfortable when you move a certain way. Soon enough though, you forget that you even have them on. They eventually seem to fit as if you’ve always worn them. The truly unlucky, though, they are left inside. Paralyzed and powerless to do anything but watch their lives be lived by someone… something, else.
— Angel Rosa
The devil blade is the spear of the unsuccessful
— Tare Munzara
Truth and falsehood pass through the same lips and leave no mark, the devil does not cease to be the devil just because he may have spoken the truth.
— José Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
Who with the Devil tries to play fair,weaves the net of his own despair.Oh, smile; what’s a house between drunkards?
— Derek Walcott, Ti-Jean and His Brothers
The joy of seeing another person in pain, frustrated or angry is a delicacy only for the most wicked.
— Robin Sacredfire
Their glee was greater glee in the fact that he was a good man, than he was any off-the-street kind of a guy who did this sort of thing without needing temptation...They delighted in the pain in the pain this would cause his wife and family..
— John Pontius, Visions of Glory: One Man's Astonishing Account of the Last Days
We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A Voltairian of good stock,” he murmured.“What is that supposed to mean?” I growled.“To believe a little in God and much in the devil!”“Well, yes, Mister Hilmacher, and if the devil is not a part in this business, let him take me to Hell!” “Mister Burgomaster, you insult the devil. He who undervalues the devil belittles God. I fail to see why the Almighty would occupy Himself with our most insignificant actions and thoughts, like a good old woman during the endless tea hours, and I would find the role of Old Nick singularly petty indeed should he amuse himself with a giant pleasantry that sends a herd and its guardians into the mortal mud of the swamp.
— Jean Ray, The Horrifying Presence and Other Tales
She is an agent of the Devil, possibly escorted out of Hell for behavior which would make a demon go "Ooooo, that's nasty!
— Amy Petrie Shaw, The Tao of the Dippy Cat: A Series of Uncomfortable Incidents and Horrible Happenings
There’s no question that Laura – in more than one way, for many reasons – danced with the devil and paid a terrible price.
— Mark Frost, The Secret History of Twin Peaks
I’d like to say it could have been worse. I’m sure lots of people hate their job, or their boss, or the people they work with. I just couldn’t relate to those people. They have options. They can quit their job, move out of town, or drop off the grid. The only option I had was a guaranteed one-way ticket to Hell when I died, and that didn’t include dental.
— H.D.  Smith, Dark Hope
I grouped my fellow employees into three categories: the plebes, the damned, and the demons.
— H.D.  Smith, Dark Hope
You came here of your own free will, Claire. I won’t be denied. You’re mine now, and I intend to keep you.
— H.D.  Smith, Dark Hope
I pulled Thanos in for a kiss, surprising him. I wasn’t sure if it was our bond or the fear this might be my last kiss, but I didn’t hold anything back. I let him in. He took full advantage, plundering my mouth as if I were the last woman on Earth, which could have been a result of him being trapped in a desolate wasteland for the last five hundred years—but I decided not to overthink it.
— H.D.  Smith, Dark Awakened
What exactly did you expect me to do? I told The Boss what you said, but he’s not going to budge. Nobody gets dental.
— H.D.  Smith, Dark Hope
You have your orders,” Mab shouted at the guards. “To the Deeps with her.” The men led me from the great hall, taking me along a series of corridors to the back of the castle, then winding through another long corridor and into a spiraling stairwell that appeared to have no end. We went further and further down until finally it ended so deep in the ground it felt like a grave. My pulse quickened as we reached the bottom. A single dark door lay ahead.
— H.D.  Smith, Dark Hope
With his nose in my hair, he inhaled deeply before putting a light kiss on my cheek. “Have you come to play?” he asked then kissed me again. “No.” I cringed when he drew my earlobe into his mouth. “I came to help you. That’s all. I swear.” “I’d rather play.
— H.D.  Smith, Dark Hope
I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud
— Neil Gaiman, Preludes & Nocturnes
Do not surrender to the one that rules this world, you have the greater One in you
— Sunday Adelaja
Some people think the devil is one being. I think the devil is when many beings come together to do terrible things. You are looking at the Terrible.
— Ellie Elisabeth, Farewell, From the Garrison
They say no one knows the Bible better than the devil.
— Rick Yancey, The Monstrumologist
Then Apollyon straddled quite over the whole breadth of the way, and said "I am void of fear in this matter. Prepare thyself to die; for I swear by my infernal den, that thou go no farther: here will I spill thy soul.
— John Bunyan
That's why there's a devil—to judge the priests.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle
The problem is not in what the devil is doing, but in what we are doing about it
— Sunday Adelaja
The devil’s attacks are proof of his powerlessness before us
— Sunday Adelaja
Sometimes you don’t even know how strong you are, the devil sees it before you do and attacks
— Sunday Adelaja
The devil is the initiator of persecution
— Sunday Adelaja
A devil - "A power that lives against its life
— George MacDonald, Mary Marston
We need to remember not to give the devil a chance and fall away from God’s grace
— Sunday Adelaja
A clue is a key which unlocks a box full of keys - those peculiarly tempting arrangements of circumstance and fate are points of departure which lead to infinite realms of mystery that beckon with the taboo of hidden knowledge.  I am compelled to follow where the curling finger of intrigue flits seductively among shadows whose origins lie in primeval antiquity.  The Forbidden Occult is forever enshrined in the luminous cathedral of my imagination.  Every philosopher's stone I look under carries my mind aloft on the fairy wings of discovery to ever higher treasures of exponentially expanding conscious awareness.
— Sean Terrence Best, Cloak of the Devil
I've heard it said, "If the Devil can't make us really bad, then he'll try to make us really busy.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
If I didn't think you were the devil, I'd say you'd be able to seduce even him.
— Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives
The greatest modern error is not to proclaim that God died, but to believe that the devil has died.
— Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Don't let the devil hear you, minister, The devil has such good hearing he doesn't need things to be spoken out loud, Well, god help us then, There's no point asking him for help either, he was born stone-deaf.
— José Saramago, Seeing
Never do the eyes of the devil shine as much as when he hears the words: liberty, equality, fraternity.
— Klonovsky
If God rewards the faithful with earthly rewards, then what leverage does the devil have?
— James Rozoff
The devil's favorite place to hide is on the other side of love!
— Tice Davids aka David T. Parker
Your guardian angel must have been working over time,' Penny laughed shakily. Rose laughed as she put her arms around her sister and hugged her. 'More like the Devil taking care of his own.
— Margaret Dickinson, The Clippie Girls
I just want you to know, I will not be falling slave to your devil dick and demon tongue. No matter how good they are.
— Kylie Scott, Dirty
Even devils should beware when bargaining with Thanos of Titan.
— Jim Starlin, The Infinity Crusade: Volume 2
Don't say something which isn't me... I am the Devil and I don't inspire of doing this shit!
— Deyth Banger
The devil has a thousand names," said Crews, voice rising, "but the name he takes the most pride in is Prince of Lies, because he is such a convincing fraud. Even God himself was fooled by Satan once, so what hope do we have to tell what's truth and what's false?
— Robert Ferrigno, Sins of the Assassin
In Sussex, if it's not the Devil that makes an appearance, then it's likely to be a dragon.
— Michael O'Leary, Sussex Folk Tales
Eugène Ney Terre’Blanche is the man who had such a long record of infamy the devil would be blue with envy.
— Dauglas Dauglas, Roses in the Rainbow
The instinct of self-preservation and the urge to self-destruction are equally strong in man! The Devil has equal a sway over humanity as God until a time still unknown to us.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I’d like to meet the devil some night,’ he said once with a malignant smile. ‘I’d chase him from here to the wilds of the Pacific. I am the devil.
— Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
The light was everywhere. He would tell me later I looked like an angel... but he just looked like the same devil to me
— Quil Carter, The Ghost and the Darkness Volume 2
I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant’s wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God’s shrine
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
I believe we are our own gods, and our own devils. Good and evil doesn’t exist out there in the world, it exists in each and every one of us.
— K.A. Hill, The Winners' Guide
Fear was the hand of the devil holding a scalding hot branding iron and touching your brain and your stomach and yelling at you to run with leaden feet.
— Dan Groat, Monarchs and Mendicants
No one showed any signs of recognizing me. I didn't know what I'd do if they did, other than lie like a devil and pray like a saint.
— Rodney  Jones, All the Butterflies in the World
There are no signs of religion at all; no priest to hear my sins, no God to push open the pearly gates, nor a devil to welcome me with a pitchfork. All of this seems so meaningless.
— Nicholas A. McGirr, The Life Tree
When he speaks into your ear so thatno one can hear, he will say he is your slave, that he’s passed to you from Deirdre. But it’s a lie, my dear,a vicious lie. He’ll make you his and drive you mad if you refuse to do his will. That is what he’s done tothem all.’ She stopped, her wrinkled brows tightening, her eyes drifting off across the dusty surface of thetable. ‘Except for those who were strong enough to rein him in and make him the slave he claimed to be,and use him for their own ends… ’ Her voice trailed off. ‘Their own endless wickedness.
— Anne Rice, The Witching Hour
He’ll take from your mind the answer best suited to lead you on, to enthrall you. He’ll weave a web of deceits so thick you won’t see the world through it. He wants your strength and he’ll say what he must say to get it. Break the chain, child! You’re the strongest of them all! Break the chain and he’ll go backto hell for he has no other place to go in all the wide world to find strength like yours. Don’t you see?He’s created it. Bred sister to brother, and uncle to niece, and son to mother, yes, that too, when he hadto do it, to make an ever more powerful witch, only faltering now and then, and gaining what he lost in one generation by even greater strength in the next. What was the cost of Antha and Deirdre if he could have a Rowan!
— Anne Rice, The Witching Hour
You think he has no will of his own? You are a fool,Charlotte. Lie with him instead of me!’ I laughed at her, and seeing the pain in her eyes, I laughed more.‘I should like to see it, you and your daimon. Lie there and call him to come now.
— Anne Rice, The Witching Hour
Never bet the devil your head.
— Tom Cardamone, Night Sweats
Well, I am no village cunning woman, no frightened merry-begot, but a woman born to riches, andeducated from the time I can remember, and given all that I could possibly desire. And now in mytwenty-second year, already a mother and soon perhaps to be a widow, I rule in this place. I ruledbefore my mother gave to me all her secrets, and her great familiar, Lasher, and I mean to study thisthing, and make use of it, and allow it to enhance my considerable strength.
— Anne Rice
And you, you’re an angel,’ he said, scornfully, ‘but an angel from a hot place. Since I’m the devil, that makes you one of my subjects. I think I’ll brand you.
— Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso
Once, my enemies were those I could seeNow the devil lies deep within meBut angels still nudge me, whispering follies of sinThis war is mine, and mine alone, to win.
— Sarah Brownlee
If you follow the devil, your journey will end up in the hell! This is what happens to those who follow the dictators!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The cat is the beautiful devil.
— Charles Bukowski, On Cats
The mad have a grace all their own".
— Kim Harrison, Every Which Way But Dead
It's one thing to wave at the Devil from afar, quite another to shake the bastard's hand.
— Joe R. Lansdale, Rumble Tumble
Then a boy, pale as death, rushed into the hall, uttering a wild scream of terror. “Death and another are closely pursuing me!
— Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte Fouqué
It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho, Let Einstein be,' restored the status quo.
— John Collings Squire
And don't go whining to God about it. It was pretty clear that there was no God up there, no kindly old gent looking down, keeping score in a notebook. You did good, you did bad, it didn't make any difference, did it? This one's going to heaven, this one's going to hell, this one's going to Disneyland.No. God wouldn't have let any of this shit happen. If you were going to believe in anything, then believe in the devil. He was much more real than God. Up there causing mischief. Laughing at the chaos he'd created.
— Charlie Higson, The Fear
The devil isn’t a true lion; he just walks around roaring like one trying to intimidate the Body of Christ. But the truth is, the devil had his teeth pulled, and all he can only do now is gum you.
— Paul Silway
Then the green man’s face grew even blacker, the red beard so red it seemed to crackle and sparkle like fir twigs on the fire; the mouth contracted to an arrow-like point before it opened to inquire in the sweetest, gentlest tones.
— Jeremias Gotthelf, Die schwarze Spinne
The devil isn’t a true lion; he just walks around roaring like one trying to intimidate the Body of Christ. But the truth is, the #devil had his teeth pulled, and all he can only do now is gum you.
— Paul Silway
The den of the Devil is no place for the innocent.
— Darby Briar, Burning Ember
Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined, and calculated. In these books the Devil stands stripped of all his brute disguises. Here are all your familiar spirits-your incubi and succubi; your witches that go by land, by air, and by sea; your wizards of the night and of the day. Have no fear now-we shall find him out and I mean to crush him utterly if he has shown his face!
— Arthur Miller, The Crucible
We must know how to discern between God's truth and the devil's counterfeit.
— Sunday Adelaja
Just when the devil tries to steer me in the wrong direction I learn how powerful God's GPS really is. (Evil will not re-route my journey). He has mapped my success to the final destination.
— Carlos Wallace, Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments Into Your Greatest Blessings
Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print
— Matthew Pearl, The Last Bookaneer
Don't look for the devil outside, look inside and exorcise yourself
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
God's blessings don't automatically ward off the attacks of the devil as he tries to tempt us with sexual immorality
— Sunday Adelaja
Luck is the devil with a halo
— Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams
The devil is the god of this planet and he does anything he wants to the people therein
— Sunday Adelaja
I burned by bridges so the devil couldn't follow me.
— L.M. Browning, Vagabonds and Sundries
The whole universe is sum up in the Human Being. Devil is not a monster waiting to trap us, He is a voice inside. Look for Your Devil in Yourself, not in the Others. Don’t forgeT that the one who knows his Devil, knows his God.
— Shams Tabrizi
This was no longer art: it even destroyed the harmony of the portrait itself. They were alive, they were human eyes! It seemed as if they had been cut out of a living man and set there. Here there was not that lofty pleasure which comes over the soul at the sight of an artist's work, however terrible its chosen subject; here there was some morbid, anguished feeling. 'What is it?' the artist asked himself involuntarily. 'It's nature all the same, its living nature––why, then, this strangely unpleasant feeling? Or else the slavish, literal imitation of nature is already a trespass and seems like a loud, discordant cry?
— Nikolai Gogol, The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Franny?” Rosy held up the four little Franks. “Could I keep one of these?”Franny looked at her hard for a moment then nodded. “’Course you can, hen,” she said, “But that’s not your daddy.”Rosy gaped. “It’s not?”“That’s my wee darling. That’s my wee Frankie before the devil twisted him into a monster.” She poked her finger into another hole where Frank’s face should have been. Her eyes glinted.
— R.G. Manse, Screw Friendship
Devil does not buy our empty soul. He waits for us to selling off that. (Diable n'achète notre âme vide. - Il attend qu'on la solde.)
— Charles de Leusse
Leonora Penderton feared neither man, beast, nor the devil; God she had never known.
— Carson McCullers, Reflections in a Golden Eye
The more you let God into your life,the more the Devil intensifies his work..
— Faruk DML
No man is exempted from the subtle deception of doctrinal drift – the man of God expects this temptation.
— Gary Rohrmayer
It's like smoking compost through a raccoon.
— Jeremy P Bushnell
Our enemy attacks the conscience little by little seeking to wear us down and then wears out a leader's resolve to fight the good fight.
— Gary Rohrmayer
Instead of speaking of justice and injustice, freedom and oppression, classless society and class society, they talked in terms of God and the Devil.
— Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World
You are the man who made himself a devil, who wishes to be a god, all for love.
— Tim W. Burke, The Flesh Sutra
Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.
— John Updike, Rabbit Redux
Satan seemed to wink at her. She supposed he would know her soul. She couldn’t remember selling it, least she wasn’t rich, but perhaps it wasn’t worth much.
— Ursley Kempe, Witches Monstrous
between hero and devil, with side you choice? i like to be a devil... king because this world are too peaceful, that will lead to no hero when there no devil to defeat
— Danny Phan
They believed the devil would rise from here,” she said. “I’m serious. They thought he would come up through the cracks in the ground, that there would be an earthquake and he would rise. Dust. Fire. The end of the world. They calculated the day and built churches to protect themselves.
— Richard House, The Kills
Youths should study,' grumbled the Old Woman, 'and not take the laws apart. And you, dear Youth, before you become acquainted with the Beautiful Woman, take a good look into her Garden through the window tomorrow morning, when everything is clearly and genuinely visible in the light of the sun. You will see that in the Garden there are no flowers which are familiar to anyone here, and only such flowers as none of us in the City know. Just think about this carefully, after all, there is something strange about it. The devil is cunning; is this not his creation for the damnation of people?'("The Poison Garden")
— Valery Bryusov
I mean, what does a devil want but to find meaning in life after a long journey of turmoil and troubles?
— Cameron Jace, Prince of Puppets
When individuals are close to God, love and desire to serve the Lord, the usual strategy of the devil is to cause them to lose their peace of heart, whereas God, on the contrary, comes to their aid to give them peace. But this rule is reversed for those whose hearts are far from God, who live in indifference and evil. The devil seeks to tranquilize such individuals, to keep them in a false sense of quietude, whereas the Lord, Who desires their salvation and conversion, will trouble and disquiet their consciences in an effort to get them to repent.
— Father Jacques Philippe
Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?
— Joker
[The devil] always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites. And he always encourages us to spend a lot of time thinking which is the worse. You see why, of course? He relies on your extra dislike of the one error to draw you gradually into the opposite one.
— C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
We need someone to thank and someone to blame; thus the concept of God and the Devil. We can't accept that everything that happens to us, is our own doing.
— Hafsa Shah
An inverted five-pointed star. The humans don’t understand it correctly. They draw a goat’s head into it with the horns at the top. They like to see the devil everywhere, except in the mirror and on TV.
— Victor Pelevin
The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.
— David Levithan, Every Day
The number of the devil is not 666.That is only his area code, his number is unlisted.
— David Javerbaum, The Last Testament: A Memoir by God
The realization that God could be female required the consideration that the Devil could be also.
— Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
The Devil went down to Georgia, he was lookin' for a soul to steal. He was in a bind, 'cos he was way behind; he was willing to make a deal.
— Charlie Daniels, The Devil Went Down to Georgia: Stories
Tell The Truth , and Shame The Devil.
— Phyllis Yvonne Stickney, Black Comedy - 9 Plays: A Critical Anthology with Interviews and Essays
Even if it’s a really funny joke, don’t laugh if the devil’s the one telling it!
— Sean Patrick Brennan, The Papal Visitor
Doesn't everyone sell his soul? I tell you, sir: the devil does not exist, there is no devil, yet I sold him my soul. That is what I am afraid of. To whom did I sell it? That is what I am afraid of, my dear sir: we sell our souls, only there is no buyer.
— João Guimarães Rosa, Grande Sertão: Veredas
The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish.
— Sara Sheridan, Brighton Belle
Sever sarcastic snakes, sting six soulless slaves, severely smack saucy sin, scar sooky saps’ spines snogging snug sexy slang, 666 I’m glad yourang…
— Initially NO, Percipience: Outside the Range of Understood Sense
The dark leaden mask hides the devil with a soul of deceit, with his warm syrupy vacuous words coercing, enticing and grasping with exposed sharpened claws, scratching slow at his prey's surface with bullet pointed precision, inserting the slow hot mercurial poison of falsification of love straight into the flowing veins of the succumbing vulnerable heart. The prey’s wanton escape futile, isolated & drawn into the hot fiery abyss.
— Alison Blackmore
...but there were four things I taught Walter to consider: 1) That it was Cain who built the first City, 2) That there is a true Science in the World called Scientia Umbrarum which, as to the publick teaching of it, has been suppressed but which the proper Artificer must comprehend, 3) That Architecture aims at Eternity and must contain the Eternal Powers: not only our Altars and Sacrifices, but the Forms of our Temples, must be mysticall, 4) That the miseries (If the present Life, and the Barbarities of Mankind, the fatall disadvantages we are all under and the Hazard we run of being eternally Undone, lead the True Architect not to Harmony or to Rationall Beauty but to quite another Game. Why, do we not believe the very Infants to be the Heirs of Hell and Children of the Devil as soon as they are disclos'd to the World? I declare that I build my Churches firmly on this Dunghil Earth and with a full Conception of Degenerated Nature. I have only room to add: there is a mad-drunken Catch, Hey ho! The Devil is dead! If that be true, I have been in the wrong Suit all my Life.
— Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor
Sever sarcastic snakes, sting six soulless slaves, severely smack saucy sin, scar sooky saps’ spines snogging snug sexy slang, 666 I’m glad you rang…
— Initially NO, Percipience: Outside the Range of Understood Sense
A country where a devil is sitting at the throne turns into a real hell!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I didn’t know if I should put my faith in God or Satan. Was there really a difference at the end of the day, when we were all going to be dead souls anyway?
— Jess C. Scott, Bedmates
Diabolical forces are formidable. These forces are eternal, and they exist today. The fairy tale is true. The devil exists. God exists. And for us, as people, our very destiny hinges upon which one we elect to follow.
— Ed Warren
The AristocratThe Devil is a gentleman, and asks you down to stayAt his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far away).They say the sport is splendid; there is always something new,And fairy scenes, and fearful feats that none but he can do;He can shoot the feathered cherubs if they fly on the estate,Or fish for Father Neptune with the mermaids for a bait;He scaled amid the staggering stars that precipice, the sky,And blew his trumpet above heaven, and got by masteryThe starry crown of God Himself, and shoved it on the shelf;But the Devil is a gentleman, and doesn't brag himself.O blind your eyes and break your heart and hack your hand away,And lose your love and shave your head; but do not go to stayAt the little place in What'sitsname where folks are rich and clever;The golden and the goodly house, where things grow worse for ever;There are things you need not know of, though you live and die in vain,There are souls more sick of pleasure than you are sick of pain;There is a game of April Fool that's played behind its door,Where the fool remains for ever and the April comes no more,Where the splendour of the daylight grows drearier than the dark,And life droops like a vulture that once was such a lark:And that is the Blue Devil that once was the Blue Bird;For the Devil is a gentleman, and doesn't keep his word.
— G.K. Chesterton, Collected Works Volume 10: Collected Poetry, Part 1
Because, good God, Lily Wellstone had the face of an angel, the body of a goddess, and the spirit of the devil glinting from her eyes. She was a woman worth losing his soul for.
— Carolyn Jewel, Not Wicked Enough
But what about me? I suffer, but still, I don’t live. I am x in an indeterminate equation. I am a sort of phantom in life who has lost all beginning and end, and who has even forgotten his own name. You are laughing- no, you are not laughing, you are angry again. You are forever angry, all you care about is intelligence, but I repeat again that I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant’s wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God’s shrine
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
The Devil needs a very good lawyer to prove that it is not the Satan but the people themselves who have committed so many evils!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When making a deal with the Devil – Haggle.
— Robert G Moons
God may be the captain pilot of this universe, but it appears that the Devil is his co-pilot!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Be careful who you trust, the devil was once an angel.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics