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“Fifteen men on the dead man's chest— Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest— Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!” Robert Louis Stevenson, “Treasure Island” - 1883

“A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.” William Shakespeare, “Antony and Cleopatra” - 1623

“God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.” Voltaire, “Candide” - 1759

“I think if the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov” - 1880

“Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.” C. S. Lewis, “The Screwtape Letters” - 1942

“God made food, the devil the cooks.” James Joyce, “Ulysses” - 1922

“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.” William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice” - 1600

“O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!” William Shakespeare, “Henry IV, Part 1” - 1597

“He will give the devil his due.” William Shakespeare, “Henry IV, Part 1” - 1597

“No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.” William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wives of Windsor” - 1602

“Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.” C. S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity” - 1952

“The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.” Anthony Trollope, “Phineas Redux” - 1874

“Come, pluck up a good heart; speak the truth and shame the devil.” François Rabelais, “Gargantua and Pantagruel” - 1534

“The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.” François Rabelais, “Gargantua and Pantagruel” - 1534

“Oh, well physicked, said the monk; a hundred devils leap into my body, if there be not more old drunkards than old physicians!” François Rabelais, “Gargantua and Pantagruel” - 1534

“Needs must when the devil drives; there's no gainsaying of it.” François Rabelais, “Gargantua and Pantagruel” - 1534

“It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.” John Steinbeck, “East of Eden” - 1952

“When reason fails, the devil helps!” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “Crime and Punishment” - 1867

“I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather” Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet” - 1887

“An Apology for the Devil . . . It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.” Samuel Butler, “The Note-Books of Samuel Butler” - 1912

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Henry IV, Part 1 (2)
The Merchant of Venice (1)
Antony and Cleopatra (1)
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Treasure Island (1)
Mere Christianity (1)
A Study in Scarlet (1)
The Brothers Karamazov (1)
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Phineas Redux (1)
Candide (1)
East of Eden (1)
Crime and Punishment (1)
Ulysses (1)
The Screwtape Letters (1)