Paradise Lost Book 9 Quotes

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

John Milton

#2. He bolted up. "What's happening? Where's my pants?

Jude Watson

#3. 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

#4. God is thy law, thou mine.

John Milton

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

John Milton

#6. '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

#7. 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

#8. Learn graceful ways of saying no and of pointing out that this pressure to do something is not in line with most people's wishes.

Judith Martin

#9. Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

Alexander Pope

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

John Milton

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

John Milton

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

John Milton

#13. Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

V.S. Pritchett

#14. You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

Alan Perlis

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

John Milton

#16. I wanted to remember what I could bear to remember and convince myself it was all there was.

Sarah Manguso

#17. That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.

K.A. Applegate

#18. 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

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

Samuel Johnson

#20. You're not supposed to die with your potential. A life well lived squeezes all the potential placed within and does something with it.

Erwin McManus

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

John Milton

#22. Usually I'm able to imagine something and it comes out as I imagined, more or less.

Julie Delpy

#23. 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

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

John Milton

#25. For if we try to go on protecting them we prevent them from growing up to be ordinary, confident adults, capable of looking after themselves.

Dorothy Rowe

#26. I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.

Young Jeezy

#27. Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

John Milton

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

John Milton