“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
Source: Angelology
“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
“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
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
1810s
Source: A Vision of the Last Judgment
“takes a devil to make a decent angel.”
Tom Spanbauer (1946) American writer