John Milton Paradise Lost Book 1 Quotes

#1. The world's decay where the wind's hands have passed,
And my head, worn out with love, at rest
In my hands, and my hands full of dust.

Ted Hughes

#2. So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.

John Milton

#3. Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

John Milton

#4. Who aspires must down as low
As high he soar'd.

John Milton

#5. What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support,
That to the height of this great argument
I may assert eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men. 1
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.

John Milton

#6. Hope elevates, and joy
Brightens his crest.

John Milton

#7. It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get a book (written)
for me, it's never quick.

Sarah Dessen

#8. Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.

Barry Zito

#9. The never-ending flight Of future days.

John Milton

#10. Precision can be suffocating

Dan Brown

#11. With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

John Milton

#12. And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

John Milton

#13. Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.

John Milton

#14. Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.

John Milton

#15. Thus it shall befall Him, who to worth in women over-trusting, Lets her will rule: restraint she will not brook; And left to herself, if evil thence ensue She first his weak indulgence will accuse.

John Milton

#16. 'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

John Milton

#17. Where peace
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes,
That comes to all.

John Milton

#18. Hey G-Town Gal: turn your underwear inside out! Then u only have to do laundry every 2 weeks - saves on detergent & trips to Laundromat!

Patricia Heaton

#19. God is thy law, thou mine.

John Milton

#20. Thou at the sight
Pleased, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile,
While by thee raised I ruin all my foes,
Death last, and with his carcass glut the grave.

John Milton