Devil's Bargain Quotes

To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.

Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.

When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.

Duane lived life right on the edge. If you ever read Goethe's Faust, Duane Allman was very much that kind of figure. His deal with Mephistopheles was to experience everything life has to offer, good and bad.

The devil shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs--he will give the devil his due.

Afghans long ago resigned themselves to this sort of thing. Compromises must be made. Deals with the devil are better than ceaseless butchery. In the exigencies of post-conflict bygones, against the threat of collapse into more terrible bloodletting, the ugliness of realpolitik is the lesser evil.

At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.

I could really try new things. That was satanism, it works really well, I made a pact.

When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.

I think pickles are cucumbers that sold out. They sold their soul to the devil, and the devil is dill.

I took whatever the devil offered me.

The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is the one calling in which at the beginning the only exertion is that of self-indulgence; all the prizes are at the commencement. It is the ever-new embodiment of the old fable of the sale of the soul to the Devil. The tempter offers wealth, comfort, excitement, but in return the victim must sell her soul, nor does the other party forget to exact his due to the uttermost farthing.

I look upon the vulgar observation, 'That the devil often deserts his friends, and leaves them in the lurch,' to be a great abuse on that gentleman's character. Perhaps he may sometimes desert those who are only his cup acquaintance; or who, at most, are but half his; but he generally stands by those who are thoroughly his servants, and helps them off in all extremities, till their bargain expires.

I’ve done made a deal with the devil.

That would be like making a pact with Lucifer. (Zarek) Yes, but I don’t smell like sulfur. And I happen to dress better. Luc always looks like a pimp. (Dionysus)

Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.

I think that having a public career is a bargain with the devil.

Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.

I have a soul the devil wouldn't buy.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.

For his sake I'm sorry that Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil, but for our sake and the sake of music I'm glad he did.

I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The devil is said to set up shop there if you want to swap your soul for something more useful. If you believe that God can be bribed, it's also the hallowed ground to make sacrifices. In the literal sense, it's also a place to change direction, but once you've changed it, you're stuck until you come to another crossroads, and who knows how long that will be.