Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she isgiven In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings.

-Keats,John
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems, 'Lamia', pt.2, l.229^34.

Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeleine's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory like a saint: She seemed a splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven.

-Keats,John
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'The Eve of St.  Agnes', stanza 25.

On s'ennuie de tout, mon Ange, c'est une loi de la Nature; ce n'est pas ma faute. One gets bored of everything, my Angel, it's a law of nature; it's not my fault.

-Laclos, Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de
  Les Liaisons dangereuses, letter141.

Artistic temperament†sometimes seems a battleground for a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

-L'Engle, Madeleine married name Mrs Hugh Franklin
  A Severed Wasp.

If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals13.

-Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph
c.1770  Aphorisms, Notebook B (translated by R  J Hollingdale, 1990).

Look homeward Angel, now, and melt with ruth.

-Milton,John
  Lycidas, l.163. The phrase was used by Thomas Clayton Wolfe for his1929 novel, Look Homeward  Angel.

For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heav'n and earth.

-Milton,John
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.3, l.681^4.

Apparently the average man sees woman alternatelyas an inferior being and as an angel.

-Muir,Willa (Wilhelmina) Johnstone ne¤  e  Anderson also
  Women:  An Inquiry, pt.1, published as Hogarth Essay no.10 in The Hogarth Essays (Second Series,1926).

There's no denying that Caruso came with a voice†that Beethoven came with music in his soul, Picasso was drawing like an angel in the crib.You're born with it.

-Nevelson, Louise
  Dawns and Dusks.

L'homme n'est ni ange ni be"  te, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la be"  te. Man is neither angel nor beast.Unfortunately, he who wants to act the angel often acts the beast.

-Pascal, Blaise
c.1654^1662  Pense¤  es, pt.6, no.358.

When you're a poet, you're a poet first.When it comes, it's like an angel. 715

-Sarton, May
Quoted by Mel Gussow in her obituary, in the NewYorkTimes, 18 Jul1995.

   O Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

-Scott, Sir Walter
  Marmion, canto 6, stanza 30.

Lost Angel of a ruined Paradise! She knew not 'twas her own; as with no stain She faded, like a cloud which had outwept its rain.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Adonais, stanza10.

And she, being old, fed from a mashed plate as an old mare might droop across a fence to the dull pastures of her ignorance. Her husband held her upright while he prayed to God who is all-forgiving to send down some angel somewhere who might land perhaps in his foreign wings among the gradual crops. She munched, half dead, blindly searching the spoon.

-A'Ghobhainn
Thistles and Roses,'OldWoman', stanzas1^2.

To marry is to domesticate the Recording Angel.Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
Virginibus Puerisque,'Virginibus Puerisque', pt.2.

   The brute curiosity of an angel's stare Turn you like them to stone.

-Tate, (John Orley) Allen
  Poems1922^1947,'Ode to the Confederate Dead'.

She came to the village church, And sat by a pillar alone; An angel watching an urn Wept over her, carved in stone.

-Tennyson
  Maud, pt.1, sect.8, l.301^4.

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

-Thackeray,William Makepeace
  The History of Henry Esmond, bk.1, ch.7.

Ihold a beast, anangel and a madmanwithinme, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self expression.

-Thomas, Dylan Marlais
  Letter to HenryTreece.

But God, who is ableto prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own.

-Walton, Izaak
  Of Donne. Life ofJohn Donne.