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An angel is like you, Kate, and you are like an angel.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. King Henry, in Henry V, act 5, sc. 2, l. 109-10.
Wooing Katherine of France.)
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Man is neither angel nor beast, and the unfortunate thing is that he who would play the angel plays the beast.
(Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French scientist, philosopher. repr. Encyclopedia Britannica, Chicago (1952). Pensées, no. 358 (1670), trans. J.M. Dent & Sons, London (1931).)
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"Angel in tights and garters"...
(Charles Dickens (1812-1870), British novelist. Sam Weller, The Pickwick Papers, ch. 45, p. 642 (1837).
This is Sam Weller's famous description of Mr. Pickwick.)
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An angel has no memory.
(Terry Southern (b. 1924), U.S. screenwriter, and Roger Vadim. Pygar (John Philip Law), Barbarella, as he rescues both Barbarella and the evil Black Queen—the film's final line (1968).
Film is based on the comic strip by Jean-Claude Forest.)
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Angel: You are a sourpuss, aren't you?
Brad: Yeah.
Angel: You want to bite somebody?
Brad: Yeah.
Angel: Well, pick your spot.
(Fredric M. Frank (1911-1977), U.S. screenwriter, Barre Lyndon (1896-1972), British, and Theodore St. John (1907-1956), U.S. screenwriter. Angel (Gloria Grahame), Brad (Charlton Heston), The Greatest Show On Earth (1952).)
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Dark Angel, with thine aching lust
To rid the world of penitence:
Malicious Angel, who still dost
My soul such subtile violence!
Because of thee, no thought, no thing,
Abides for me undesecrate:
Dark Angel, ever on the wing,
Who never reachest me too late!
(Lionel Pigot Johnson (1867-1902), British poet, critic. The Dark Angel (l. 1-8). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).)
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I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.
(Wesley Ruggles, U.S. screenwriter. Tira (Mae West), I'm No Angel, description of her reputation (1933).
West once said to an interviewer that this film's story was "all about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.")
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The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land, you may almost hear the beating of his wings.
(John Bright (1811-1889), British politician. speech, Feb. 23, 1855, to House of Commons. Hansard, col. 1761.
Appealing for an armistice in the Crimean War.)
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Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil,
That mak'st my blood cold, and my hair to stare?
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Brutus, in Julius Caesar, act 4, sc. 3, l. 279-80.
Seeing the ghost of Caesar.)
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Thus am I still provoked to every evil
By this good wicked spirit, sweet angel devil.
(Michael Drayton (1563-1631), British poet. Idea (sonnet 9, l. 13-14). . .
Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932) Oxford University Press.)
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