“You married an angel and a devil mixed together there, mrs. Horowitz.”
Wanda Toscanini (1907–1998) Italian musician
Source: The Last Romantic, television documentary on Vladimir Horowitz
“You married an angel and a devil mixed together there, mrs. Horowitz.”
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)
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
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
Disputed
“There are no angels there are devils in many ways”
John Doe (1954) American singer, songwriter, actor, poet, guitarist and bass player
Song lyrics, Los Angeles (1980), The World's A Mess It's In My Kiss
“takes a devil to make a decent angel.”
Tom Spanbauer (1946) American writer
“The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer
“I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.”
Ludwig Feuerbach book The Essence of Christianity
Source: The Essence of Christianity (1841)