“Now I just don't know who to tell to go to hell
Who put the old devil in the distorted angel?”
Elvis Costello (1954) English singer-songwriter
Distorted Angel
Song lyrics, All This Useless Beauty (1996)
“Doesn't matter now, devils who paint angels.”
— Anne Rice, book The Vampire Lestat
The Vampire Lestat (1985)
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“And so it goes, it's the Devil I suppose
But it doesn't matter much to me.”
The Ghost.
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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
“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
“It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
"The Poet's Story," January 1, 1972 entry
A Small Journal (1974)