Angels

Famous quotes containing the word angels:

“The angels are stooping
Above your bed;
They weary of trooping
With the whimpering dead.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)