We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
— Oscar Wilde
Useful Angel And Devil quotations

The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits.
Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty.
If a man's patience is stronger than his whims and desires, then he is like an angel, but if his whims and desires are stronger than his patience, then he is like a devil. If his desire for food, drink and sex is stronger than his patience, then he is no better than an animal.

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.
I'm sin, but I'm not the devil.
Kiss an angel good morning and love her like the devil when you get back home.

Black hair, angelic face, and devil eyes.
He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.
I do sin, but I am not the devil.

There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell.
There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.
Be careful who you trust, the devil was once an angel.
A wolf is no less a wolf because he's dressed in sheepskin and the devil is no less the devil because he's dressed as an angel.

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.
Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well.
I'm pretty, but not beautiful. I sin, but I'm not the devil. I'm good, but I'm not an angel.

Man?s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest.
It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

I admit that I ain't no angel, I admit that I ain't no saint - I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they're so hard to find.
One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.
We must live like angels and produce like the devil!

Your body is woven from the light of heaven.
Are you aware that its purity and swiftness is the envy of angels and its courage keeps even devils away.
This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.
Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!

An angel and a devil are always beside us, and the one we listen to more will prevail. This confrontation is what makes life so magical because you are always challenged by the circumstances - we are good and evil depending on how we act
Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones...you are invited!
People call me crazy and a madman. Even 'Tasmanian Devil.' I'd rather be called the 'Tasmanian Angel.'

Angel, saint, Devil's spawn, good or evil, you've got me pinned to the wall and labeled as yours until the day I die. And if you die first, then it won't be long before I follow.
Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them.
And its snap split the world in two.
Studies show: Intelligent girls are more depressed Because they know What the world is really like Don't think for a beat it makes it better When you sit her down and tell her Everything gonna be all right She knows in society she either is A devil or an angel with no in between She speaks in the third person So she can forget that she's me

The classic statement on polarization comes from Christ: 'He that is not with me is against me.' (Luke 11:23) He allowed no middle ground to the moneychangers in the Temple. One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.
There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils.
Hell was created for the devil and his angels. If you go, you are an intruder.
A specter is haunting the cinema: the specter of narrative.
If that apparition is an Angel, we must embrace it; and if it is a Devil, then we must cast it out. But we cannot know what it is until we have met it face to face.
In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.