Paradise Lost Book 8 Quotes

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

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. 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. Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.

John Milton

#8. This is a big f ... ing deal!

Joe Biden

#9. Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

Samuel Johnson

#10. 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

#11. I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.

Olivia Williams

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

John Milton

#13. Say, doth she weep for very wantonness?
Or is it that she dimly doth foresee
Across her youth the joys grow less and less
The burden of the days that are to be:
Autumn and withered leaves and vanity,
And winter bringing end in barrenness."
-from "My Lady April

Ernest Dowson

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

John Milton

#15. I'm drinking doubles now that you're running around single again.

Willie Nelson

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

John Milton

#17. Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

G. Gordon Liddy

#18. Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward - to forgive. It means sacrificing everything if necessary, to carve out a place for your own existence. It means living.

Malcolm X

#19. 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

#20. '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

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

John Milton

#22. Every world forms its own people, and every person his own world. The two live within one another as best they can.

Menyhert Lakatos

#23. God is thy law, thou mine.

John Milton

#24. 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

#25. In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

C. Northcote Parkinson

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

John Milton

#27. There wouldn't be so many stories about vampires and zombies and other weird creatures if they didn't really exist.

R.L. Stine