Quotes from John Milton
Live while ye may,Yet happy pair.
- John Milton
Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.
- John Milton
The angel ended, and in Adam's ear so charming left his voice that he awhile thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.
- John Milton
Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.
- John Milton
Hence vain deluding Joys,The brood of Folly without father bred!
- John Milton
When I consider how my light is spent, ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, and that one talent which is death to hide lodg'd with me useless.
- John Milton
Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, that would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.
- John Milton
At whose sight all the stars hide their diminish'd heads.
- John Milton
Govern well thy appetite, lest sin surprise thee, and her black attendant, Death.
- John Milton
A thousand fantasies begin to throng into my memory, of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, and airy tongues that syllable men's names on sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
- John Milton
O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray warbl'st at eve, when all the woods are still.
- John Milton
To live a life half dead, a living death.
- John Milton