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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). Pensιes, no. 358 (1670), trans. J.M. Dent & Sons, London (1931).)
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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 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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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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'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
(William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), British author. The History of Henry Esmond, bk. 1, ch. 7 (1852).)
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Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
(Robert Burton (1577-1640), British clergyman, author. The Anatomy of Melancholy, pt. 1, sct. 2, memb. 1, subsct. 2 (1621).)
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