William Shakespeare Quotes About Hell

• 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

• Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Sassy, Heaven

  William Shakespeare (1784). “Othello, the Moor of Venice, tragedy ... Marked with the variations in the Manager's book, at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane”, p.68

• 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

• Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Powerful, Halloween

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 14

• Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Night, Denmark In Hamlet

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [413]

• O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Night, Nurse

  William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.188, Cambridge University Press

• Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Hands, Two

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [38]

• Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
  Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd,
  Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,
  Be thy intents wicked, or charitable,
  Thou com'st in such a questionable shape,
  That I will speak to thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Air, Heaven

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 39

• I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,
  To die upon the hand I love so well

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Hands, Heaven

  William Shakespeare, Trevor R. Griffiths (1996). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.131, Cambridge University Press

• For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Dark, Night

  Sonnet 147

• O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Heaven, Grace

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, Charles Symmons (1842). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone, with a Life of the Poet”, p.117

• For what is wedlock forced but a hell,
  An age of discord and continual strife?
  Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss,
  And is a pattern of celestial peace.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Patterns, Bliss

  William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.247, Oxford University Press, USA

• 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

• O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else? And shall I couple Hell?

  William Shakespeare

  Couple, Fear, Heaven

  1600-1 Hamlet. Hamlet, act1, sc.5, l.92-7.

• 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!

  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

• I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Fire, Faces

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.707, BookCaps Study Guides

• Nay, had I pow'r, I should
  Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
  Uproar the universal peace, confound
  All unity on earth.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Unity, Earth

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Macbeth”, p.158, Penguin

• Thou unfit for any place but hell.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Hell

  William Shakespeare, J. M. Jephson (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.559

• To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil!
  Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit!
  I dare damnation: To this point I stand,--
  That both the worlds I give to negligence,
  Let come what comes; only I'll be reveng'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Giving, Grace

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.435

• O war! thou son of Hell!

  William Shakespeare

  War, Son, Hell

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.64, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• O hell! to choose love with another's eye.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Hell

• She is your treasure, she must have a husband;
  I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day,
  And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.

  William Shakespeare

  Dance, Husband, Feet

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 2, sc. 1, l. 32

• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Two, Voice, Waiting

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

• The cunning livery of hell.

  William Shakespeare

  Hell, Cunning

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.105

• Hadst thou no poison mixed, no sharp-ground knife,
  No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean,
  But 'banished' to kill me--'banished'?
  O friar, the damned use that word in hell;
  Howling attends it! How hast thou the heart,
  Being a divine, a ghostly confessor,
  A sin-absolver, and my friend professed,
  To mangle me with that word 'banished'?

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Mean, Knives

  William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe, Richard Farmer, George Steevens, Edward Capell (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakespeare: with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators: comprehending a life of the poet, and an enlarged history of the stage”, p.149

You May Also Like:

Miguel de Cervantes

Anne Hathaway

Charles Dickens

William Wordsworth

Christopher Marlowe

Moliere

Elizabeth I