Francis Thompson Quotes

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

Evil requires no reason.

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.

Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball.

And Satan smiled, stretched out his hand, and said, "O War, of all the scourges of humanity, I crown you chief.

I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

The enemy is a spiritual enemy. He's called the principality of darkness. The enemy is a guy called Satan.

Fear comes not from God but from the evil one.

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

Pride the first peer and president of hell.

The devil's name is dullness.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

Brothers of the devil

The more sin is rationalized, the greater the possibility of destruction by Satan's wolves.

When I use the word 'Satan,' it doesn't stand for a guy with horns. To me, that word means the powers of the unknown, the powers of darkness.

Ladies and gentlemen, there is evil in this world.

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

I haven't become a satanist, but I am fascinated by the character of the devil.

Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.

Solitude is the playfield of Satan.

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.

It wouldn't make for sanity would it, living with the devil.