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Hell: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

It was the rampart of God's house That she was standing on ; By God built over the sheer depth, The which is Space begun; So high, that looking downward thence, She scarce could see the sun.— DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI — The Blessed

Damozel. All places that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.— Shakespeare — Richard II. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 275.

For the selfsame heaven That frowns on me looks sadly upon him.— Shakespeare — Richard III. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 285.

Heaven's face doth glow.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 48.

There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out.— Shakespeare — Macbeth. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 5.

Well, God's above all; and there be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved.— Shakespeare — Othello. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 105.

Were it not good your grace could fly to heaven? The treasury of everlasting joy. S.— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. II. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 17.

For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love.— EDMUND WALLER — Song. While I Listen to Thy Voice. St. 2.

I have been there, and still would go; 'Tis like a little heaven below.— ISAAC WATTS — Divine Songs. Song

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.— BAILEY — Festus. Sc. Heaven.

Hell is the wrath of God-His hate of sin.— BAILEY — Festus. Sc. Hell. L. 194. L. 194.

There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about.— DANTE — Inferno. Canto XVIII. L. 1.

X. We spirits have just such natures We had for all the world, when human crea tures; And, therefore, I, that was an actress here, Play all my tricks in hell, a goblin there.— DRYDEN — Tyrannick Love. Epilogue.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum. No. 17ó,

Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.— HERRICK — Noble Numbers. Hell.

And, bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.— SAM'L JOHNSON — London. L. 116.

Hell is paved with good intentions. C.— SAM'L JOHNSON — (Quoted) Boswell's

Life of Johnson. 1775. Look where he goes! but see he comes again Because I stay! Techelles, let us march And weary death with bearing souls to hell.— MARLOWE — Tamburlane the Great. Act 5. Sc. III. L. 75.

A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. 1. L. 61.

All hell broke loose.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. IV. L. 918.

Hail, horrors, hail, Infernal world! and thou profoundest hell, Receive thy new possessor.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. I. L. 251.

Hell Grew darker at their frown.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. II. L. 719.

Long is the way And hard, that out of hell leads up to light.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. II. L. 432.

Myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide; To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. IV. L. 75.

Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. IV. L. 21.

On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. II. L. 879.

The gates that now Stood open wide, belching outrageous flame Far into Chaos, since the fiend pass'd through.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. X. L. 232.