Devil Quotes by William Shakespeare

He must needs go that the devil drives.

— William Shakespeare

What, can the devil speak true?

— William Shakespeare

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

— William Shakespeare

The devil is a gentleman.

— William Shakespeare

They were devils incarnate.

— William Shakespeare

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

— William Shakespeare

One sees more devils than vast hell can hold

— William Shakespeare

The prince of darkness is a gentleman!

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.

— William Shakespeare

“Tis too much proved—that with devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself.”

— William Shakespeare

“Zounds, sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you...I am one, sir, that comes…

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most…

— William Shakespeare

If there be devils, would I were a devil, To live and burn in everlasting fire, So I might have your company…

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: ‘tis the eye of childhood that…

— William Shakespeare

Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones that will…

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil…O God, that…

— William Shakespeare

To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation: To this point I…

— William Shakespeare

Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can…

— William Shakespeare

Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration…

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

“Pray to the devils; the gods have given us over.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

“The devil take order! I'll to the throng: Let life be short, else shame will be too long.”

— William Shakespeare

Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

— William Shakespeare

Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil. Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.

— William Shakespeare