Act V, sc. xi
Wallenstein (1798), Part II - Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein)
“To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.”
“A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.”
“The world's saddest man will live here in Los Angeles.”
"Fastest Growing Heartache In The West," from Beaucoups Of Blues (1970)
“In this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.”
Francis Bacon, in The Advancement of Learning (1605) Book II, xx, 8.
Misattributed
Gen. Edward Cummings, in Pt. 1, Ch. 11
The Naked and the Dead (1948)
“I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.”
Source: The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal
“But sad as angels for the good man's sin,
Weep to record, and blush to give it in.”
Part II, line 357
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
