I started an e-mail thread at work (because I am so industrious) on the best quotes about Satan, or in general the notion of a personification of ultimate evil (David Warner from Time Bandits didn't make the cut, but you get the idea). Here's what we've come up with so far.
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"What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he's around? Nobody is going to be taken in if he has a long, red, pointy tail. No. I'm semi-serious here. He will look attractive and he will be nice and helpful and he will get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation and he will never do an evil thing... he will just bit by little bit lower standards where they are important. Just coax along flash over substance... Just a tiny bit. And he will talk about all of us really being salesmen. And he'll get all the great women."
Albert Brooks, Broadcast News
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"Did you really expect to conjure up the devil and ask him to behave?"
Agent Mulder, The X-Files (Die Hand Der Verletz)
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"The Devil is a low motherfucker, jack."
Richard Pryor
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"Who's that goat-legged fellow? I like the cut of his jib."
Mr. Burns, Simpsons Treehouse of Horror IV (via Ann All)
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Calvin: "Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man?"
Hobbes: "I'm not sure man needs the help."
Bill Watterson
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"It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist."
Pierre Charles Baudelaire
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"I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him."
Saint Teresa of Avila
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"They that worship God merely from fear, Would worship the devil too, if he appear."
Thomas Fuller
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One of my favorites:
Bill Pulman (as Andy Safian): "Speak of the Devil..."
Alex Baldwin (as Dr. Jed Hill), looming in from the darkness: "...and the Devil appears!"
Malice (1993)
not a great movie, but a great scene/line
"Satan sniggers with fiendish scorn at God, who sits in his ivory tower emitting nary a chuckle."
Diane LaVey
"Please allow me to introduce myself. I'm a man of wealth and taste."
The Rolling Stones
Butthead (while watching Banarama's "Venus" video): "Huh, huh, huh...Satan's got back!"
"Underestimated from day one. You'd never think I was a master of the universe, now would ya?" - Al Pacina as John Milton (the devil) in The Devil's Advocate
"Speak of the Devil... and the Devil appears"
Great line, but it's "as old as the hills"!
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