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“Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.” C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“I think if the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

“God made food, the devil the cooks.” James Joyce, Ulysses

“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.” William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.” William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“When reason fails, the devil helps!” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Fifteen men on the dead man's chest— Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest— Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.” Voltaire, Candide

“O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!” William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1

“No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.” William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

“I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“He will give the devil his due.” William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1

“Needs must when the devil drives; there's no gainsaying of it.” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

“It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“An Apology for the Devil . . . It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.” Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“Come, pluck up a good heart; speak the truth and shame the devil.” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

“Oh, well physicked, said the monk; a hundred devils leap into my body, if there be not more old drunkards than old physicians!” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

“The Devil . . . is a wily one, and, until an hour before he fell, even God thought him beautiful in Heaven.” Arthur Miller, The Crucible

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