William Shakespeare Quotes About Devil
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They were devils incarnate.
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Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.
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Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil.
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
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Zounds! sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.
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Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil. Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.
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Love is familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love." -
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He must needs go that the devil drives.
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The devil shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs--he will give the devil his due.
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And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
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Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop at them; But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in Wonder to wait on treason and on murder; And whatsoever cunning fiend it was That wrought upon thee so preposterously Hath got the voice in hell for excellence.
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I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.
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Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.
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Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy: sayest thou that house is dark?
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Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest.
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A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost.
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One sees more devils than vast hell can hold
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If there be devils, would I were a devil, To live and burn in everlasting fire, So I might have your company in hell, But to torment you with my bitter tongue!
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Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.
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Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.
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O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!
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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.
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I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.
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A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.
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When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows
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The devil is a gentleman.
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What, can the devil speak true?
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
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O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil....O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!
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Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.
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