Milton Quotes

89 quotes by 76 authors

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton. — Charles Baudelaire
Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built on Trent?… — A. E. Housman
It would be a wonderful experience to stand there in those enchanted surroundings and hear Shakespeare and Milton and Bunyan read from their noble works.… — George Woodward Warder
I photographed Arthur Coble and his sons Milton and Darrel as they did chores, but the vicious winds made it difficult to see and breathe. — Arthur Rothstein
I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which… — Charles Bukowski
May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace. — Yoweri Museveni
Everything reminds Milton Friedman of the money supply. Everything reminds me of sex, but I try to keep it out of my papers. — Robert Solow
Milton Hope led the singing of Happy Birthday ... He would say, 'Keep it sweet and short and don't try to be funny.' — Bob Hope
Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in… — Richard Rorty
A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money. — Ben Bernanke
You want to prove that Milton Friedman is a fascist? It's easy. Quote him. — Arthur Laffer
The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported story of our… — Molly Ivins
Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star,… — William Wordsworth
When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting with Homer and… — Janet Morris
And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating strains,-alas! too few. — William Wordsworth
A woman who utters such disgusting and depressing noise has no right to be anywhere, no right to live. Remember that you are a human… — Rex Harrison
But the more I read... after awhile... I begin to find they were all writing about the same thing, this same dull old here-today-gone-tomorrow scene...… — Ken Kesey
The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight,… — William Wordsworth
It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry… — John Ruskin
The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer… — Wendy Lesser

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