Angels

Famous quotes containing the word angels:

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

    “The angels all were singing out of tune,
    And hoarse with having little else to do,
    Excepting to wind up the sun and moon,
    Or curb a runaway young star or two,”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “Pardon, my Mother Church, if I consent
    That Angels led him when from thee he went,
    For even in Error sure no Danger is
    When joyn’d with so much Piety as His.”
    —Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)