
“Ruffian or devil, black as hell or bright as angels, thenceforth he was nothing to me.”
Wieland; or, the Transformation (1798)
Joe Biden; * https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/joe-biden-newt-gingrich-vp-vice-president-225062
Biden to Gingrich: 'Gonna do it?'
Politico
Kristen
East
July 2, 2016.
“Ruffian or devil, black as hell or bright as angels, thenceforth he was nothing to me.”
Wieland; or, the Transformation (1798)
“For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.”
Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets
Free Speech Is Winning, Thanks to Citizens United http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/08/30/free-speech-is-winning-thanks-to-citizens-united/ (August 30,2014)
In an interview to the Weekly Standard http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11000.html regarding his interest in Dick Cheney serving in McCain's administration (2006)
2000s, 2006
Source: Young Adventure (1918), The Quality of Courage
As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and Modern (1891) edited by Tryon Edwards. p. 327.
1890s and attributed from posthumous publications