William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth23 April 1564
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.
When truth kills truth, O devilish holy fray!
You are one of those that will not serve God, if the devil bid you.
O devil, devil! If that the earth could teem with woman's tears, each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.
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.
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.