angelic behavior Quotes

Stop crying. You're giving archangels everywhere a bad name." Patch to Pepper

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

Man is neither angel nor beast.

Were men angels the devices of politics could be disdained, and earth would be a celestial abode; but while men were men, and the English were wicked, one must profit by their troubles.

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

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved.

Her hand fluttered over her heart. "Did you just say the word shopping without flinching?" "I did. So?" "So, that's gotta be a record. It's a worldwide fact men hate shopping." "How can I hate it when I've never done it?" Her lips curled into a slow, beautiful smile. "If you weren't already an angel, I'd dub you a saint. Poor guy. You have no idea what you're in for.

I'm nervous about the prospects of an America that refuses to abide by its best conscience and its best lights and its best angels.

World needs more angels, even plywood ones.

the better angels of our nature

God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it's shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn't he? When a son cuts somebody's throat the mother only sees it's possible for a misguided angel to act like a devil - and she's entirely right about that!

Franny has the measles, for one thing. Incidentally, did you hear her last week? She went on at beautiful length about how she used to fly all around the apartment when she was four and no one was home. The new announcer is worse than Grant - if possible, even worse than Sullivan in the old days. He said she surely dreamt that she was able to fly. The baby stood her ground like an angel. She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.

You can win with strong players, but you cannot win with angels.

Children are like little angels - there's no way you can't love them.

The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels.

Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend.

Men are not angels, neither are they brutes.

Children are certainly too good to be true.

Use absolutely no pressure. Just like an angel's wing.

Do angels take the Lord's name in vain? The idea is so ridiculous that we scarcely like to ask the question. ... How dare we do that which angels dare not do? Is it possible for us to argue that that which is forbidden in heaven is praiseworthy on earth?

Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel.

Even angels have their wicked schemes and you take that to new extremes.