Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Devil

• We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eden, Heaven, Devil

• I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Devil, Despair, Knows

• Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Devil, Faust, Caught

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1984). “Faust”

• When toward the Devil's Hose we tread,
  Woman's a thousand steps behind.
  [Ger., Denn geht es zu des Bosen Haus
  Das Weib hat tausend Schritt voraus.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Women, Devil, Hats

• Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  God, Nature, Play

• If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Angel, Devil, Prove

• Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Special, Devil, Hell

• Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Devil, Culture, World

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1875). “Faust: A Tragedy”, p.258

• No, no! The devil is an egotist,
  And is not apt, without why or wherefore,
  "For God's sake," others to assist.
  [Ger., Nein, nein! Der Teufel ist ein Egoist
  Und thut nicht leicht um Gottes Willen,
  Was einem Andern nutzlich ist.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Devil, Sake

• The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Devil, World, Shapes

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1833). “Faust, a dramatic poem, tr. into Engl. prose with notes by the translator of Savigny's 'Of the vocation of our age for legislation'”, p.95

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