Angel Quotes

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint. (Albert Schweitzer)
In heaven an angel is nobody in particular. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god. View quote
William Shakespeare
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. View quote
Michelangelo
All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. View quote
Horace Mann
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities. View quote
James Allen
Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love. View quote
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
He looked as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. (Raymond Chandler)
There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God. View quote
Norman Mailer
Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print. View quote
Thomas Moore
Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation. View quote
Robert Bridges
I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged. View quote
Maria Callas
The devil is an angel too. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in and the recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. View quote
Laurence Sterne
I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape. View quote
Desmond Morris
When one that holds communion with the skies Has fill'd his urn where these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'T is e'en as if an angel shook his wings. View quote
William Cowper
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. View quote
Doris Lessing
I asked a thief to steal me a peach He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down Holy and meek, she cries. As soon as I went An angel came. He winked at the thief And smiled at the dame And without one word spoke Had a peach from the tree, And twixt earnest and joke Enjoyed the lady. (William Blake)
The Angel that presided oer my birth Said Little creature, formd of joy and mirth, Go, love without the help of anything on earth. View quote
William Blake
O woman in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou. View quote
Walter Scott
The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alone can say "I am with you"), can, when we have sinned, release us, unless we bring repentance with us. View quote
Ambrose