William Shakespeare Devil Quotations

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

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!

What, can the devil speak true?

The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it.

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

He must needs go that the devil drives.

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.

Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil.

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.

Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.

Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables.

They were devils incarnate.

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.

O devil, devil! If that the earth could teem with woman's tears, each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!

When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows

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.

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.

Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

One sees more devils than vast hell can hold

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

The devil is a gentleman.

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

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?

A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost...

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.

You are one of those that will not serve God, if the devil bid you.

The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape

The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape.