William Shakespeare on Religion
1564–1616 England
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All places that the eye of heaven visits,
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.
Sermons in stones and good in every thing.
There's husbandry in heaven;
Their candles are all out.
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
Some sins do bear their privilege on earth.
And wet his grave with my repentant tears.
Under your good correction, I have seen,
When, after execution judgment hath
Repented o'er his doom.
O, what authority and show of truth
Can cunning sin cover itself withal!
In religion,
What damned error, but some sober brow
Will bless it and approve it with a text.
I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.
Sure he's not in hell; he's in Arthur's bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom.
It is great sin to swear unto a sin,
But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.
Black is the badge of hell,
The hue of dungeons and the suit of night.
For the selfsame heaven
That frowns on me looks sadly upon him.
Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.
Commit
The oldest sins the newest kind of ways?
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Shakespeare (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.