John Milton Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old John Milton quotes, John Milton sayings, and John Milton proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Their rising all at once was as the sound of thunder heard remote. John Milton
The thunder, Wing'd with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep. John Milton
A tyrant is but like a king upon a stage, a man in a vizor, and acting the part of a king in a play: he is not really a king. John Milton
Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane. John Milton
Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse. John Milton
Yet some there be that by due steps aspire to lay their just hands on that golden key that opes the palace of Eternity. John Milton
Danger will wink on opportunity. John Milton
In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs John Milton
Oh dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total Eclipse Without all hope of day! John Milton
The best apology against false accusers is silence. John Milton
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. John Milton
To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood. John Milton
The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness. John Milton
Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe. John Milton
Solitude sometimes is best society. John Milton
No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities. John Milton
I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words. John Milton
All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits Of painful superstition and blind zeal, Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds. John Milton
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. John Milton
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. John Milton
The infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceiv'd the mother of mankind. John Milton
Hell has no benefits, only torture. John Milton
Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them. John Milton
A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns. John Milton
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
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. John Milton
A beardless cynic is the shame of nature. John Milton
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. John Milton
Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. John Milton
Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane. John Milton