“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)
Joe Biden; * https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/joe-biden-newt-gingrich-vp-vice-president-225062
Biden to Gingrich: 'Gonna do it?'
Politico
Kristen
East
July 2, 2016.
“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)
Alexandra Ivy (1961) American novelist
Source: When Darkness Comes
“For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.”
William Shakespeare book Shakespeare's Sonnets
Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets
David Bossie (1965) American political activist
Free Speech Is Winning, Thanks to Citizens United http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/08/30/free-speech-is-winning-thanks-to-citizens-united/ (August 30,2014)
John McCain (1936–2018) politician from the United States
In an interview to the Weekly Standard http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11000.html regarding his interest in Dick Cheney serving in McCain's administration (2006) <br class="br">2000s, 2006
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: Pleasure of a Dark Prince
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) poet, short story writer, novelist
Source: Young Adventure (1918), The Quality of Courage
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and Modern (1891) edited by Tryon Edwards. p. 327.
1890s and attributed from posthumous publications