Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saint Augustine

Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an angel.

Wislawa Szymborska

I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

Samuel Johnson

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.

Samuel Johnson

Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.

Wallace Stevens

I am the angel of Reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door.

Wallace Stevens

And what's above is in the past As sure as all the angels are.

Wallace Stevens

I am one of you and being one of you is being and knowing what I am and know. Yet I am the necessary Angel of earth, since, in my sight, you see the earth again...

Virgil

Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth.

Willa Holland

Apparently the average man sees woman alternatelyas an inferior being and as an angel.

Vladimir Guerrero

I want to win when the whole world is watching, ... I want to win a World Series in an Angels uniform.

Walter de La Mare

Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.

Walter Benjamin

The face of the angel of history is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of events, he sees a single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistably propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. The storm is what we call progress.

William Blake

Thou fair-hair'd angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown Put on, and smile upon our evening bed!

William Blake

I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world's release.

William Blake

Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.

William Blake

Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!

William Blake

O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.

William Blake

Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.

William Blake

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

William Blake

As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs.

Wendy Wright

There is a divinity awaiting entry into human history at the threshold of our heart's doors.

Walker Percy

For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man...Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.

Samuel Richardson

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

Walter Lippmann

The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

Voltaire

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

Voltaire

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Winston Churchill

We are weakened and we are tired, but we are not done yet.

William Law

This is the state of all creatures, whether men or angels; as they make not themselves, so they enjoy nothing from themselves; if they are great, it must be only as great receivers of the gifts of God; their power can only be so much of the divine power acting in them; their wisdom can be only so much of the divine wisdom shining within them; and their light and glory, only so much of the light and glory of God shining upon them.

William Law

The obedience of men is to imitate the obedience of angels, and rational beings on earth are to live unto God, as rational beings in heaven live unto Him.

Woody Allen

I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

William Wordsworth

A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light