“If I exorcise my devils, well, my angels may leave too.”
Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor
"Please Call Me, Baby", The Heart of Saturday Night (1974).
“The devil is an angel too.”
Tres novelas ejemplares y un prólogo [Three Exemplary Novels and a Prologue] (1920); Two Mothers
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“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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“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
“No. He married an angel, and I married a devil.”
Wanda Toscanini (1907–1998) Italian musician
Source: The Last Romantic, television documentary on Vladimir Horowitz
“Angel and devil,” he said. “One is but a shade of the other.”
Danielle Trussoni book Angelology
Source: Angelology
“Doesn't matter now, devils who paint angels.”
Anne Rice book The Vampire Lestat
The Vampire Lestat (1985)
“Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.”
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838) French diplomat
Noir comme le diable, chaud comme l'enfer, pur comme un ange, doux comme l'amour.
frequently misattributed to Talleyrand, no primary source exists, its not his style of speech, and he famously drank tea not coffee.
Misattributed