Angel Quotes

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln

Hope, Mother, Owe

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Michelangelo

Him, Free, Until

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.
William Shakespeare

Work, God, Moving

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
William Shakespeare

May, Him, Within

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.
Marilyn Monroe

Love, Good, Girl

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw

Heaven, Nobody, Particular

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

Trying, Play, Anyone

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.
James Allen

Dreams, Time, Greatest

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Love, Smile, Mother

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
Albert Schweitzer

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
Saint Augustine

Cannot, Hear, Pass

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Andre Maurois

Fool, Enemy, Woman

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
Madeleine L'Engle

Dark, Creativity, Sometimes

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
Malcolm X

Respect, Nothing, Wrong

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Love, Black, Hell

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
John Keats

Philosophy, Wings, Clip

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
Doris Lessing

Love, Trust, Woman

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.
Horace Mann

Fear, Heart, Child

I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
Jimmy Page

Broken, Looking, Wing

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life, Once, Hand

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Woman, May, Him

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Sex, Woman, Talk

I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far.
Billy Connolly

Give, Far, Wind

I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn't get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn't get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.
Nicole Kidman

School, Character, Jesus

Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
Edmund Spenser

Great, Sunshine, Made

The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.
Paramahansa Yogananda

Freedom, Creation, Highest

Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.
Matthew Fox

Evil, Racism, Healing

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
A. N. Wilson

Life, Truth, Liars

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
Havelock Ellis

Happiness, Fight, Feeling

I feel safe in white because deep down inside, I'm an angel.
Puff Daddy

Deep, Down, Inside

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