I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying. — F. R. Leavis Copy Share Image
A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it comes down to a choice," Magnus said. "Between saving one person and saving the whole world. I've seen it happen,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be… — John Milton Copy Share Image
It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“Dad on Child-rearing: "There's no education superior to travel. Think of The Motorcycle Diaries, or what Montrose St. Millet wrote in Ages… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
But say That death be not one stroke, as I supposed, Bereaving sense, but endless misery From this day onward, which I… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Ah! I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.” — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Literature before the Renaissance had frequently offered ideal patterns for living which were dominated by the ethos of the church, but after… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“We passionately long for there to be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love’s embraces met –Adam, the goodliest man of men… — Randi Cooley Wilson Copy Share Image
“...but which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“All this was only, in my father's estimation, a means; the end was the Earthly Paradise, the translation of William Morris's 'News… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Cheese for dessert is rather like Paradise Lost in that everyone thinks he ought to like it, but still you don't notice… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
All three of my books, "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora," "East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres," and "Birds of… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia. — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
“There are long stretches of the work [Paradise Lost] that are for anyone not theologically minded sheer howling boredom from the point… — Marco Mincoff Copy Share Image
“Women ought to be religious; faith was the natural fragrance of their minds. The more incredible the things they believed, the more… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“He did. He researched her. Someone told him that she had a special interest in John Milton. It did not take long… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
