
“Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven.”
Source: Clockwork Angel
The Tale of Taleisin
Context: I was with my king
In the heavens
When Lucifer fell
Into the deepest hell.
I carried the banner
Before Alexander.
I know the names of the stars
From the North to the South.
“Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven.”
Source: Clockwork Angel
“When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.”
Variant: When I die I hope to go to heaven--whatever that is--and I want to be able to afford the price of admission.
Source: Atlas Shrugged
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
Song 10: "Solemn Thoughts of God and Death".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
“Thy heaven doors are my hell gates.”
The Everlasting Gospel (c. 1818)
Context: The vision of Christ that thou dost see
Is my vision's greatest enemy.
Thine has a great hook nose like thine;
Mine has a snub nose like to mine.
Thine is the Friend of all Mankind;
Mine speaks in parables to the blind.
Thine loves the same world that mine hates;
Thy heaven doors are my hell gates.
“I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone.”
Iría al paraíso, pero con mi infierno; solo, no.
Voces (1943)
She-Gallants; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), "Women", p. 886-97.