Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

For something to be completely evil is to be nothing. Satan has good attributes - intelligence, for instance - but they are corrupted. I cannot reconcile myself emotionally to alternative understandings of evil.

I do like to explore evil characters in my books.

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

The small Satan left and the great Satan came.

We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

The devil's name is dullness.

God hates a half-devil ten times more than an arch-devil!

I only gave back the devil the stuff I got serving him.

Every time I meet someone, they talk about 'Shaitan.'

The Devil is fun.

Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible.

But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.

No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.

The prince of darkness is a gentleman!

And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.

Grey is the devil's favorite color.

For very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary...

The devil is an angel too.

No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.

Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.

The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.

Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.

The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say one thing & do another.

They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.