Top 100 Milton John Quotes

#1. In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread,
Till thou return unto the ground; for thou
Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth,
For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #321
#2. And to thy husband's will
Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #3173
#3. Consult ... /what reinforcement we may gain from hope,/If not, what resolution from despair.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #4318
#4. Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #9041
#5. Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #15882
#6. None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #21179
#7. Milton Friedman's misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Milton John Quotes #22665
#8. Imparadis'd in one another's arms.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #28240
#9. For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #30783
#10. Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #33734
#11. Danger will wink on opportunity.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #34662
#12. Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #34995
#13. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #38047
#14. Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #38166
#15. 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

Milton John Quotes #44196
#16. But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #47220
#17. A death-like sleep,
A gentle wafting to immortal life.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #48398
#18. Wickedness is weakness.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #49474
#19. It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or wicked king, and after due conviction to depose and put him to death.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #51649
#20. Sabrina fair
Listen where thou art sitting
Under the glassie, cool, translucent wave,
In twisted braids of Lillies knitting
The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair,
Listen for dear honour's sake,
Goddess of the silver lake,
Listen and save.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #52790
#21. The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #54048
#22. Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #60169
#23. Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #64177
#24. For the air of youth,
Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign
A melancholy damp of cold and dry
To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume
The balm of life.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #66896
#25. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #67165
#26. Luck is the residue of design.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #70922
#27. Tears such as angels weep.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #71718
#28. Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #76435
#29. Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #79452
#30. What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #81765
#31. Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #82240
#32. If we think to regulat Printing, thereby to rectifie manners, we must regulat all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightfull to Man.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #89701
#33. Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #91238
#34. The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #94352
#35. Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #96740
#36. Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #96987
#37. Such I created all th' Ethereal Powers And Spirits, both them who stood & them who faild; Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. Not

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #97339
#38. Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #98006
#39. 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

Milton John Quotes #98393
#40. Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.

John Ruskin

Milton John Quotes #100101
#41. [Censors] rake through the entrails of many an old good author, with a violation worse than any could be offered to his tomb.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #102536
#42. Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell
Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings
A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time.
The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #103558
#43. And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #103665
#44. Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #107852
#45. And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #108670
#46. But infinite in pardon is my Judge.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #109323
#47. What though the field be lost?
All is not Lost; the unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And the courage never to submit or yeild.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #109951
#48. A bevy of fair women.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #110747
#49. They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #114758
#50. Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #117863
#51. The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #118900
#52. If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #121089
#53. The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #121734
#54. Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #123384
#55. Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #127664
#56. In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #128706
#57. A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #141646
#58. Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #143401
#59. Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #143408
#60. What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #146287
#61. There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #147188
#62. The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #148288
#63. Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #149918
#64. What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #151125
#65. In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #152414
#66. For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #153866
#67. No man [ ... ] can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #153877
#68. Solitude is sometimes the best society.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #156430
#69. Milton was the gold standard of religious poets for English and American scholars. But Milton wrote of Hell and Heaven from above and below, respectively, not from the inside: safer advantages.

Matthew Pearl

Milton John Quotes #158634
#70. If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #160256
#71. O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams
That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #165820
#72. I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public, of peace and war.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #167682
#73. With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #170474
#74. The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #170841
#75. Thither he bent his way, determined there
to rest at noon; and entered soon the shade
high roofed, and walks beneath, and alleys brown,
That opened in the midst a woody scene;
Nature's own work it seemed, Nature-taught Art

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #175833
#76. This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #177577
#77. Ink is the blood of the printing-press.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #183069
#78. Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #183283
#79. From morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, a summer's day; and with the setting sun dropped from the zenith like a falling star.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #185716
#80. What hither brought us, hate, not love, nor hope Of Paradise for Hell, hope here to taste Of pleasure, but all pleasure to destroy, Save what is in destroying, other joy To me is lost. Then

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #194338
#81. Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #194757
#82. 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 John Quotes #197193
#83. He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #204135
#84. More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #204527
#85. His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #205340
#86. Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, ...

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #205926
#87. Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #209570
#88. Seas wept from our deep sorrows.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #212729
#89. You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #214101
#90. Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to tier aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #215659
#91. He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #216663
#92. What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #219166
#93. A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #219749
#94. Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #221199
#95. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #221260
#96. Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #221930
#97. Milton's learned vocabulary [ ... ] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child.

John Broadbent

Milton John Quotes #223685
#98. Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #225296
#99. Ah, why should all mankind
For one man's fault, be condemned,
If guiltless?

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #227193
#100. The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

John Milton

Milton John Quotes #228949

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