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Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a
roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
Author: Bible
Source: I Peter (ch. V, v. 8)
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How are thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the
nations!
Author: Bible
Source: Isaiah (ch. XIV, v. 12)
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Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he
will flee from you.
Author: Bible
Source: James (ch. IV, v. 7)
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His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it
shall bring him to the king of terrors.
Author: Bible
Source: Job (ch. XVIII, v. 14)
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Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of
the world.
Author: Book of Common Prayer
Source: Public Baptism of Infants
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Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. I, memb. III)
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The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. IV, memb. I, subsect. III)
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And bid the devil take the hin'most.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto II, l. 633)
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Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick
(Though he gave his name to our Old Nick).
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 1,313)
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Here is the devil-and-all to pay.
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote (bk. IV, pt. I, ch. X)
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Therefore it behooveth hire a full long spoon
That shal ete with a feend.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Source: The Canterbury Tales (l. 602), The Squire's Tale
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"I think if the devil doesn't exist, then man has created him.
He has created him in his own image and likeness." "Just as man
created God, then?" observed Alyosha.
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
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No, no! The devil is an egotist,
And is not apt, without why or wherefore,
"For God's sake," others to assist.
[Ger., Nein, nein! Der Teufel ist ein Egoist
Und thut nicht leicht um Gottes Willen,
Was einem Andern nutzlich ist.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Faust (I, 4, 124)
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Culture which smooth the whole world licks,
Also unto the devil sticks.
[Ger., Auch die Kultur, die alle Welt beleckt,
Hat auf den Teufel sich erstreckt.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Faust (I, 6, 160)
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I call'd the devil, and he came,
And with wonder his form did I closely scan;
He is not ugly, and is not lame,
But really a handsome and charming man.
A man in the prime of life is the devil,
Obliging, a man of the world, and civil;
A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate,
He talks quite glibly of church and state.
Author: Heinrich Heine
Source: Pictures of Travels--The Return Home (no. 37)
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When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil
drives.)
Author: John Heywood
Source: Johan the Husband--Proverbs (ch. VII)
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What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
Author: John Heywood
Source: Johan the Husband--Proverbs (ch. VII)
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The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it.
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: The Devil is an Ass (act IV, sc. 1)
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It is Lucifer,
The son of mystery;
And since God suffers him to be,
He, too, is God's minister,
And labors for some good
By us not understood.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (epilogue, last stanza)
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Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as
tiles on its roofs, I would enter.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (epilogue, last stanza)
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The devil, my friends, is a woman just now.
'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.
Author: Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith")
Source: News
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Swings the scaly horror of his folded tail.
Author: John Milton
Source: Hymn on Christ's Nativity (l. 172)
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The infernal serpent; he it was whose guile,
Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceived
The mother of mankind.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 34)
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His form had yet not lost
All his original brightness, not appear'd
Less than arch-angel ruined, and th' excess
Of glory obscured.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 591)
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From morn
To moon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,
A summer's day; and with the setting sun
Dropt from the zenith like a falling star.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 742)
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Satan exalted sat, by merit raised
To that bad eminence.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 5)
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Black it stood as night,
Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell,
And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head
The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Satan was now at hand.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 670)
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Incens'd with indignation Satan stood
Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd,
That fires the length of Ophiucus huge
In th' artic sky, and from his horrid hair
Shakes pestilence and war.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 707)
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Abashed the Devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is, and saw
Virtue in her own shape how lovely; saw
And pined his loss.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 846)
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Satan; so call him now, his former name
Is heard no more in heaven.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. V, l. 658)
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Bid the Devil take the slowest.
Author: Matthew Prior
Source: On the Taking of Namur
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Accursed be he who plays with the devil.
[Ger., Verflucht wer mit dem Teufel spielt.]
Author: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Source: Wallenstein's Tod (I, 3, 64)
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Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Comedy of Errors (Dromio of Syracuse at IV, iii)
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I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man,
To yield possession to my holy prayers,
And to thy state of darkness hie thee straight.
I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Comedy of Errors (Pinch at IV, iv)
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The spirit that I have seen
May be a devil, and the devil hath power
T' assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps
Out of my weakness and my melancholy,
As he is very potent with such spirits,
Abuses me to damn me.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at II, ii)
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Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of
sables.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii)
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He will give the devil his due.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Prince Henry at I, ii)
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The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
Modo he's called, and Mahu.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Lear (Edgar at III, iv)
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Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here
he comes in the likeness of a Jew.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Solanio at III, i)
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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact.
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold;
That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt.
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theseus at V, i)
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This is a devil, and no monster. I will leave him; I have no
long spoon.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Tempest (Stephano at II, ii)
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What, man, defy the devil? Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Toby at III, iv)
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The Satanic school.
Author: Robert Southey
Source: Vision of Judgment (original preface, III)
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From his brimstone bed, at break of day,
A-walking the Devil is gone,
To look at his little snug farm of the world,
And see how his stock went on.
Author: Robert Southey and Samuel T. Coleridge
Source: The Devil's Walk (st. 1)
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The bane of all that dread the Devil!
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: The Idiot Boy (st. 67)
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Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
Author: Bible, 1 Peter 5:8
Source: None
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The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.
Author: Sir Roger L'Estrange
Source: None
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The devil's most devilish when respectable.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: None
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Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: None
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The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
Author: Karl Kraus
Source: None
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