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“When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil
drives.)”
John Heywood Quotes Source: Johan the Husband--Proverbs (ch. VII)
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“What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.”
John Heywood Quotes Source: Johan the Husband--Proverbs (ch. VII)
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“The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it.”
Ben Jonson Quotes 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.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes 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.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes 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.”
Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith") Quotes Source: News
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“Swings the scaly horror of his folded tail.”
John Milton Quotes 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.”
John Milton Quotes 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.”
John Milton Quotes 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.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 742)
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“Satan exalted sat, by merit raised
To that bad eminence.”
John Milton Quotes 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.”
John Milton Quotes 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.”
John Milton Quotes 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.”
John Milton Quotes 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.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. V, l. 658)
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“Bid the Devil take the slowest.”
Matthew Prior Quotes 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.]”
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Quotes Source: Wallenstein's Tod (I, 3, 64)
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“Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii)
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“He will give the devil his due.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theseus at V, i)
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