archangel quotes

An Archangel a little damaged.

-Lamb, Charles
  Of Coleridge. Letter to Wordsworth, 26  Apr. Collected in E  W Marrs (ed) Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, vol.3 (1978).

If I were the Archangel Gabriel, madam, I'm afraid you would not be in my constituency.

-Menzies, Sir Robert Gordon
Attributed reply to a woman who had heckled him with the words'I wouldn't vote for you if you were the Archangel Gabriel.' Quoted in Ray Robinson The Wit of Robert Menzies (1966).

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