John Milton Quotes

What can 'scape the eye
Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart.
Omniscient! — John Milton

Where the bright seraphim in burning row
Their loud uplifted angel trumpets blow. — John Milton

Son of Heav'n and Earth, Attend: that thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself, That is, to thy obedience; therein stand. — John Milton

Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape
Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine. — John Milton

Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed,
And daffodillies fill their cups with tears,
To strew the laureate to hearse when Lycid lies. — John Milton

Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it. — Philip Pullman

Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books. — John Milton

God shall be all in all. — John Milton

Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all. — John Milton

Danger will wink on opportunity. — John Milton

Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die. — John Milton

Day and night,
Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost
Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new. — John Milton

His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power. — John Milton

That who advances his glory, not their own, Them he himself to glory will advance. — John Milton

The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving. — John Milton

Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself. — John Milton

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. — John Milton

Meaning Michael Milton; meaning the whole thing. — John Irving

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good. — John Milton

Rich and various gems inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep. — John Milton

Come let us haste, the stars grow high,
But night sits monarch yet in the mid sky. — John Milton

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. — John Milton

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind. — John Milton

And to the faithful: death, the gate of life. — John Milton

His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid. — John Milton

A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so. — John Milton

Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd. — John Milton

O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only. — John Milton

For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance. — John Milton

To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade. — John Milton

Th' unconquerable will,/ And study of revenge, immortal hate,/ And courage never to submit or yield/ And what is else not to be overcome? — John Milton

Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium. — John Milton

What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies. — John Milton

Yours be the advantage all, mine the revenge — John Milton

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! — John Milton

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness. — John Milton

Seas wept from our deep sorrows. — John Milton

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do. — John Milton

Hail holy light, offspring of heav'n firstborn! — John Milton

Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all. — John Milton

So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself. — John Milton

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest,
Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven. — John Milton

Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east. — John Milton

Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find? — John Milton

The virtuous mind that ever walks attended
By a strong siding champion, Conscience. — John Milton

A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd. — John Milton

Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence. — John Milton

Faithful found among the faithless. — John Milton

And miserable it is to be to others cause of misery ... — John Milton

O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes! — John Milton

Where shame is, there is also fear. — John Milton

To whom the wilie Adder, blithe and glad. — John Milton

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free. — John Milton

Just deeds are the best answer to injurious words. — John Milton

The brazen throat of war. — John Milton

Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine? — John Milton

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. — John Milton

Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses. — John Milton

Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways. — John Milton

We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in. — John Milton

Milton Friedman's misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food. — John Milton

I fear yet this iron yoke of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks: the ghost of a linnen decency yet haunts us. — John Milton

The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape. — John Milton

So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he. — John Milton

No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality. — John Milton

The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth. — John Milton

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words. — John Milton

Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. — John Milton

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby. — John Milton

Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse. — John Milton

A short retirement urges a sweet return. — John Milton

Every cloud has a silver lining — John Milton

All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman. — George Stigler

Our cure, to be no more; sad cure! — John Milton

And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons. — John Milton

And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound. — John Milton

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller. — John Milton

But what will not ambition and revenge
Descend to? — John Milton

Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train. — John Milton

For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state. — John Milton

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! — John Milton

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence. — John Milton

And to thy husband's will
Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule. — John Milton

Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament. — John Milton

Where no hope is left, is left no fear. — John Milton

Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words
To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart;
Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape. — John Milton

To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory. — John Milton

The wife, where danger or dishonor lurks, safest and seemliest by her husband stays, who guards her, or with her the worst endures. — John Milton

The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger. — John Milton

Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate. — John Milton

So spake the Son, and into terrour chang'd His count'nance too severe to be beheld And full of wrauth bent on his Enemies. — John Milton

The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear. — John Milton

And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon. — John Milton

A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night. — John Milton

Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd
Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind. — John Milton

Indu'd With sanctity of reason. — John Milton

Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden. — John Milton

Nor think thou with wind Of aery threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not. — John Milton

Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell. — John Milton