Saint Augustine Devil Quotations

Poetry is the Devil's wine.

Poetry is devil's wine.

The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.

Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.

When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others.

The Devil invented gambling.

Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.