I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story.

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear

He saw a cottage with a double coach house, A cottage of gentility; And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility

Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick (Though he gave his name to our Old Nick).

And bid the devil take the hin'most.

I have always said, the first Whig was the Devil