Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Devil

Quotes about: Devil

• Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Horny, Devil, Horns

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.339

• And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Humility, Pride, Devil

  'The Devil's Thoughts' (1799)

• If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Angel, Men, Devil

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.487

• As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Character, Angel, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.364

• He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Brother, Mind, Devil

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1872). “Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge”, p.88

• If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Angel, Men, Devil

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.288

• The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Humorous, Devil, Extremes

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “Lectures Upon Shakspeare”, p.279, Classic Books Company

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