Angels

Famous quotes containing the word angels:

“People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

“We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Minute after minute, aeon after aeon,
Nothing lets up or develops.
And this is neither a bad variant nor a tryout.
This is where the staring angels go through.
This is where all the stars bow down.”
—Ted Hughes (b. 1930)