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  • They were devils incarnate.

    'Henry V' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. [33]
  • Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 160
  • Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil.

    William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.38
  • The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [99]
  • Zounds! sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.

    'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. 108
  • Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil. Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.

    William Shakespeare (2016). “Twelfth Night”, p.68, Penguin
  • Love is familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love." -

    Love  
    William Shakespeare (2009). “Love's Labour's Lost”, p.80, Cambridge University Press
  • He must needs go that the devil drives.

    William Shakespeare (1998). “All's Well that Ends Well”, p.95, Oxford University Press, USA
  • The devil shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs--he will give the devil his due.

    Giving  
    1596-7 Prince Harry. Henry IV Part One, act1, sc.2, l.117-8.
  • 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.

    William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.95, Cambridge University Press
  • 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.

    Two  
    William Shakespeare (1995). “King Henry V: Third Series”, p.174, Cengage Learning EMEA
  • 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.

    Men  
    William Shakespeare (1790). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators; to which are added An essay on the chronological order of his plays; an essay relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a dissertation on the three parts of King Henry vi; an historical account of the English stage; and notes. By E. Malone. 10 vols. [in 11 pt.].”, p.634
  • 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.

    William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers (1862). “The Complete Works of Shakespeare: With a Memoir”, p.613, Prabhat Prakashan
  • 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?

    William Shakespeare (2010). “Twelfth Night”, p.79, Palgrave Macmillan
  • 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.

    Art  
    William Shakespeare (1835). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected; Together with a Copious Glossary”, p.639
  • A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost.

    William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson”, p.69
  • One sees more devils than vast hell can hold

    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7
  • 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!

    Anger   Fire  
    William Shakespeare (1826). “The Plays of William Shakspeare Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies, Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. and Edmond Malone, Esq”, p.671
  • Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.

    'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 7, l. [166]
  • Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.

    William Shakespeare, Isaac Ambrose ECCLES (1805). “The Comedy of the Merchant of Venice ... With the Notes and Illustrations of Various Commentators, and Remarks by the Editor [A. Eccles].”, p.116
  • O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!

    Shame  
    William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.684, BookCaps Study Guides
  • 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.

    Love   Running  
  • I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.

    Thinking   Fire  
    William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.885, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.

    'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. [274]
  • When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows

    William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.833, Wordsworth Editions
  • The devil is a gentleman.

  • What, can the devil speak true?

    'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 107
  • 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!

    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [99]
  • 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!

    Men  
    'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [293]
  • Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

    William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.459
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