“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)
“The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devils' party without knowing it.”
Note to The Voice of the Devil
1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793)
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English Romantic poet and artist 1757–1827Related quotes
“Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just God when he's drunk.”
Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor
"Heartattack and Vine", Heartattack and Vine (1980).
“Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Variant: Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he’s there alone.
Source: Devil May Cry
“We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.”
Anatole France (1844–1924) French 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
“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
“Angel and devil,” he said. “One is but a shade of the other.”
Danielle Trussoni book Angelology
Source: Angelology
“Poor devils, they'll wake up in hell without knowing how they got there.”
Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) American author
"Black Vulmea's Vengeance" (1938)
“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)