Top 32 Paradise Lost Book 2 Quotes
#1. And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.
John Milton
#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. or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion." He did not mean, of course, that religion turns all good people bad, but merely some of them,
Jerry A. Coyne
#5. Who aspires must down as low
As high he soar'd.
John Milton
#6. 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
#7. You can only exclude it on philosophical grounds. In my view there is absolutely nothing wrong in that. What I want to bring into the open is the fact that we are using philosophical criteria in choosing our models. A lot of cosmology tries to hide that.
George F. R. Ellis
#8. For sixteen years, I had seen just emptiness in those eyes. Her eloquent eyes had lost their expressiveness to destiny.
Anmol Rawat
#9. Who's the subject?"
"The psychiatrist - Dr. Hannibal Lecter," Crawford said.
A brief silence follows the name, always, in any civilized gathering.
Thomas Harris
#10. Hope elevates, and joy
Brightens his crest.
John Milton
#11. Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
Samuel Johnson
#12. We think sometimes we're only drawn to the good, but we're actually drawn to the authentic. We like people who are real more than those who hide their true selves under layers of artificial niceties
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#13. When you can carry five full dinner platters on your left arm, you should be able to vote, even if you're not eighteen.
Joan Bauer
#14. I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't ... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway story that opens it up for me; that happened for me with 'Paradise Lost' and the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy.
Helen Oyeyemi
#15. The never-ending flight Of future days.
John Milton
#16. I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#17. With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.
John Milton
#18. Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.
John Milton
#19. Life, Enza decided, is not about what you get, but what is taken from you. It's in the things we lose that we discover what we most treasure.
Adriana Trigiani
#20. Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.
John Milton
#21. Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.
Ray Bradbury
#22. 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
#23. '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
#24. I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!
J.K. Rowling
#25. Football is not a contact sport. Its a collision sport
Duffy Daugherty
#26. Where peace
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes,
That comes to all.
John Milton
#27. I ask for your forgiveness. I feel so miserable that it's difficult even to say sorry.
Hwang Woo-suk
#29. 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
#30. Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.
Terry Eagleton
#31. I was like any other kid: very normal, I can say. I just was a simple kid that came from a humble family and was taught by my father to be a family man and be committed to them. I stepped into boxing following my older brothers.
Miguel Cotto
#32. A general is powerless without an army.
An army is directionless without a general.
To win battles a general and an army need each other.
Matshona Dhliwayo
