“No. He married an angel, and I married a devil.”

— Wanda Toscanini

Source: The Last Romantic, television documentary on Vladimir Horowitz

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Italian musician 1907–1998

Wanda Toscanini (1907–1998) Italian musician

“Angel and devil,” he said. “One is but a shade of the other.”

Danielle Trussoni book Angelology

Source: Angelology

“Ruffian or devil, black as hell or bright as angels, thenceforth he was nothing to me.”

Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810) American novelist, historian and editor

Wieland; or, the Transformation (1798)

“The devil is an angel too.”

Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher

Tres novelas ejemplares y un prólogo [Three Exemplary Novels and a Prologue] (1920); Two Mothers

“The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devils' party without knowing it.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Note to The Voice of the Devil
1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793)

“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.”
Humilitas homines sanctis angelis similes facit, et superbia ex angelis demones facit.

Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher

As quoted in Manipulus Florum (c. 1306), edited by Thomas Hibernicus, Superbia i cum uariis; also in Best Thoughts Of Best Thinkers: Amplified, Classified, Exemplified and Arranged as a Key to unlock the Literature of All Ages (1904) edited by Hialmer Day Gould and Edward Louis Hessenmueller
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