William Shakespeare Quotes About Devil

• Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Evil, Hell

  William Shakespeare, Virginia Mason Vaughan, Alden T. Vaughan (1999). “The Tempest: Third Series”, p.164, Cengage Learning EMEA

• The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

  William Shakespeare

  Witty, Atheist, Memorable

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

• 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!

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Venice, Apples

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

• Love is familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love." -

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Angel, Evil

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Love's Labour's Lost”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Running, Angel

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

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Fire, Oil

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.885, Bloomsbury Publishing

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

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Devil, Bargains

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

• The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Power, Devil

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.199, Classic Books Company

• 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!

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Men, Names

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [293]

• We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pios action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

  William Shakespeare

  Devil, Sugar, Too Much

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Hamlet”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

• What, can the devil speak true?

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Devil, Speak

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

• 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

  Play, Devil, Saint

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

• What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Enemy, Devil

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. [109]

• Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Childhood, Anxiety

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 52

• Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Devil, Monsters

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 160

• Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Fighting, Iron

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 7, l. [166]

• The devil is a gentleman.

  William Shakespeare

  Evil, Gentleman, Devil

• Zounds! sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.

  William Shakespeare

  Evil, Devil, Serving God

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. 108

• 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!

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Fire, Devil

  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

• Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.

  William Shakespeare

  Evil, Temptation, Sometimes

  William Shakespeare (1867). “Works. The Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions: With Introductions, Notes Original and Selected, and a Life of the Poet”, p.472

• One sees more devils than vast hell can hold

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Devil, Hell

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

• Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

  William Shakespeare

  Light, Temptation, Devil

  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

• O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Destiny, Names

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [285]

• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Heaven, Devil

  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

  Nature, Night, Devil

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

You May Also Like:

Miguel de Cervantes

Anne Hathaway

Charles Dickens

William Wordsworth

Christopher Marlowe

Moliere

Elizabeth I