<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Devil - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63444]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12185]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a devil, and no monster. I will leave him; I have no long spoon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12172]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a devil, and no monster. I will leave him; I have no long spoon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, man, defy the devil? Consider, he's an enemy to mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12173]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, man, defy the devil? Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Satanic school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Satanic school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone,  To look at his little snug ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12175]]></link><description><![CDATA[From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone,  To look at his little snug farm of the world,   And see how his stock went on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bane of all that dread the Devil! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bane of all that dread the Devil!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil's most devilish when respectable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12179]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil's most devilish when respectable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Devil himself is good, when he is pleased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12182]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Devil himself is good, when he is pleased.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12152]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swings the scaly horror of his folded tail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Swings the scaly horror of his folded tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The infernal serpent; he it was whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceived  The mother of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12154]]></link><description><![CDATA[The infernal serpent; he it was whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceived  The mother of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His form had yet not lost All his original brightness, not appear'd  Less than arch-angel ruined, and th' excess ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12155]]></link><description><![CDATA[His form had yet not lost All his original brightness, not appear'd  Less than arch-angel ruined, and th' excess   Of glory obscured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From morn To moon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,  A summer's day; and with the setting sun ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12156]]></link><description><![CDATA[From morn To moon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,  A summer's day; and with the setting sun   Dropt from the zenith like a falling star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell,  And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell,  And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head   The likeness of a kingly crown had on.    Satan was now at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd,  That fires the length of Ophiucus huge  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd,  That fires the length of Ophiucus huge   In th' artic sky, and from his horrid hair    Shakes pestilence and war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw  Virtue in her own shape how lovely; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw  Virtue in her own shape how lovely; saw   And pined his loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bid the Devil take the slowest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bid the Devil take the slowest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accursed be he who plays with the devil. [Ger., Verflucht wer mit dem Teufel spielt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accursed be he who plays with the devil. [Ger., Verflucht wer mit dem Teufel spielt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man, To yield possession to my holy prayers,  And to thy state ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12165]]></link><description><![CDATA[I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man, To yield possession to my holy prayers,  And to thy state of darkness hie thee straight.   I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit that I have seen May be a devil, and the devil hath power  T' assume a pleasing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit that I have seen May be a devil, and the devil hath power  T' assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps   Out of my weakness and my melancholy,    As he is very potent with such spirits,     Abuses me to damn me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will give the devil his due. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12168]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will give the devil his due.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prince of darkness is a gentleman. Modo he's called, and Mahu. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prince of darkness is a gentleman. Modo he's called, and Mahu.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact.  One sees more devils than vast hell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12171]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact.  One sees more devils than vast hell can hold;   That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic,    Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt.     The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,      Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;       And as imagination bodies forth        The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen         Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing          A local habitation and a name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil drives.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12147]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil drives.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12148]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is Lucifer, The son of mystery;  And since God suffers him to be,   He, too, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12150]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is Lucifer, The son of mystery;  And since God suffers him to be,   He, too, is God's minister,    And labors for some good     By us not understood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is the devil-and-all to pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is the devil-and-all to pay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore it behooveth hire a full long spoon That shal ete with a feend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore it behooveth hire a full long spoon That shal ete with a feend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I think if the devil doesn't exist, then man has created him. He has created him in his own image ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12143]]></link><description><![CDATA["I think if the devil doesn't exist, then man has created him. He has created him in his own image and likeness." "Just as man created God, then?" observed Alyosha.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, no! The devil is an egotist, And is not apt, without why or wherefore,  "For God's sake," others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12144]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, no! The devil is an egotist, And is not apt, without why or wherefore,  "For God's sake," others to assist.   [Ger., Nein, nein! Der Teufel ist ein Egoist    Und thut nicht leicht um Gottes Willen,     Was einem Andern nutzlich ist.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.  [Ger., Auch die Kultur, die alle Welt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.  [Ger., Auch die Kultur, die alle Welt beleckt,   Hat auf den Teufel sich erstreckt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan;  He is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan;  He is not ugly, and is not lame,   But really a handsome and charming man.    A man in the prime of life is the devil,     Obliging, a man of the world, and civil;      A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate,       He talks quite glibly of church and state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12122]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the devil does not exist, and man has therefore created him, he has created him in his own image ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12123]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the devil does not exist, and man has therefore created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12124]]></link><description><![CDATA[I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for him]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12124</guid></item></channel></rss>